The smuggling enterprise is a busy and profitable one, as PA (Palestinian Authority) residents willingly pay to get smuggled across the Green Line into Israel proper.

“He told me that he was in Saudi Arabia and he wants to get to Jaffa because God arranged work for him” stated Bilal Sivan, who met the terrorist Muhammed Masalcha who perpetrated the terror attack in Jaffa in March 2016.

On Wednesday 9 Sivan, the High Court gave the green light to raze the terrorist’s home, located in the Kalkilye area. It was decided that the fact that the terrorist was killed is not in its own right a deterrence, permitting the razing of the home to serve as a deterrence to future terrorists.

Justices Chanan Meltzer, Tzvi Zilbertal and Uri Shoham decided sealing the home was insufficient as a brother of the terrorist has publically expressed his support for the fatal attack as well as for Hamas and Fatah.

Sivan was one of many smugglers, PA residents earning a handsome living for the risky work of smuggling illegals across the Green Line. Often the going rate is NIS 200, but in this case, the murderous terrorist got the ride for a mere NIS 150.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)