IDF forces demolished overnight Thursday two apartments in Hebron that belonged to Arafat Irfaiya, the Palestinian terrorist who is suspected of rape and murder of Ori Ansbacher in Jerusalem two months ago.
Irfaiya lived in one of the apartments with his family and was in the process of renovating the second one, in which he planned to live.
The body of Ansbacher, 19, was discovered on Feb. 7 near Ein Yael on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Irfaiya, 30, was located by security forces the next night.
In March, Irfaiya was indicted on counts of raping and murdering Ansbacher. According to the description in the indictment of the crime, Ansbacher, 19, who was performing her national service at a center for youth at risk in the Ein Yael area of Jerusalem, entered the forested area around the center late on the morning of Feb. 7, carrying a pad of paper. Irfaiya approached the area, carrying a knife. He saw Ansbacher, identified her as Jewish, and decided to kill her.
The indictment states that Ansbacher tried to fight off her attacker, but he overcame her, assaulted her, and stabbed her a number of times using the knife he had on his person. Ansbacher died as a result of her stab wounds.
During the remand hearing, District Attorney Yuval Kadar laid out the evidence against Irfaiya.
"The evidentiary material includes DNA samples from the scene of the crime; the knife used in the murder, which was found where the terrorist was hiding – which bore bloodstains of the murder victim – as well as the victim's SIM card, which was discovered in his [Irfaiya's] bag along with her cellphone, which was recovered from a nearby ditch. The killer was also able to recount details that only someone who had been at the scene would know – for example, that the victim arrived with headphones and a notebook."
Irfaiya recreated the attack for investigators. He told them that he had killed Ansbacher out of ethno-religious motives.
Irfaiya also revealed that a few weeks before he killed Ansbacher, he had made a decision to murder a Jew. He said that he had purchased a kippa to help him carry out his plan. The kippa was later found in his pants pocket.
