Israeli troops destroy home of Palestinian

Confrontations between protesters and Israeli police rocked Jerusalem throughout Tuesday [Getty Images]

Israeli security forces have destroyed the East Jerusalem home of a Palestinian who carried out a suicide car attack in October that left two people dead, the military said, as pitched street battles raged in the aftermath of an attack on a synagogue in West Jerusalem that killed five Israelis. "The home of the terrorist, who killed an Israeli baby and a young woman on October 22 in a tram station in Jerusalem was destroyed in Silwan," the military said in a statement on Wednesday. Four families who lived in the building - including that of the attacker AbdelRahman al-Shaludi, who was shot and killed shortly after the October assault - had to evacuate, said Al Jazeera's Dalia Haquta, reporting from East Jerusalem. The whole neighbourhood was closed off by the Israeli police, she said. In the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal al-Mukaber - the hometown of the two Palestinians who carried out the attack on the Har Nof Synagogue on Tuesday morning killing five Israelis - Israeli troops were confronted by angry Palestinians. The Israeli troops were headed to the area to demolish the homes of the Abu Jamal cousins who carried out the synagogue attack. Four rabbis - three with Israeli-US citizenship and a fourth who was Israeli-British - were killed by Palestinians armed with a gun and knives. A police officer died of his wounds hours after the attack. Synagogue attackers targeted The victims were identified as 59-year-old Moshe Twersky,  Kalman Levine, 55; Aryeh Kupinsky, 43, and Avram Shmuel Goldberg, 68. Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from West Jerusalem, said the confrontation had so far prevented the Israelis from demolishing the homes of Ghassan Abu Jamal and Oday Abu Jamal. "But it is pretty safe to say that it will eventually [be carried out]. All these lends to general unease in the East of Jerusalem which has really been brewing for sometime now," he added. At least 10 Palestinians were wounded in violence near al-Ram, a Jerusalem neighbourhood that has been cut off from the rest of the city by the Israeli separation wall. Timeline: A review of the critical events that have marked the history of al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Approximately 25 others were wounded in Sur Baher, south of Jerusalem, Palestinian medical sources told Al Jazeera. Violence also flared in the occupied West Bank with Israeli settlers attacking a school in the village of Urif, south of Nablus. Clashes ensued and at least five Palestinians were wounded by rubber-coated steel bullets while others were taken to hospital with tear-gas-related injuries. Israeli settlers also attacked Palestinian cars at bypass roads in the Hebron area, south of the West Bank. Ramallah-based rights group Addameer said 10 members of the Abu Jamal family were arrested on Tuesday morning. They included the parents and wife of Ghassan Muhammad Abu Jamal, and the mother, uncle and brother of Odai Abed Abu Jamal. Stabbed in the leg In the evening, a Palestinian man was stabbed in the leg in northern Jerusalem, according to Israeli police and Palestinian media reports. Fadi Radwan was attacked near al-Musrara and taken to Hadassah Hospital, medics said. Earlier, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, promised a harsh response to the synagogue attack and ordered the demolition of the homes of the the Abu Jamal cousins. Israeli authorities had halted this practice in 2005, after a review committee determined it did not deter future attacks. However, the tactic was renewed following the killing of three Israeli teens near a West Bank settlement this summer. In an attempt to defuse tensions, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a statement condemning the killing of civilians on all sides. He also demanded a halt to "raids into Al-Aqsa [mosque]" and "settler provocation". Palestinians are angry at what they say are repeated attempts by right-wing Jews to extend their influence at the Muslim-run compound housing the mosque.