The Zionist military early Tuesday destroyed the West Bank house of a Palestinian from Hebron in the occupied West Bank who killed a Zionist in a knife attack last year.

The Zionist military early Tuesday destroyed the West Bank house of a Palestinian from Hebron in the occupied West Bank who killed a Zionist in a knife attack last year, the army said.

The destruction of the house of Maher al-Hashlamoun was accompanied by clashes between dozens of Palestinian stone throwers and occupation soldiers but no injuries were reported, according to witnesses at the scene.

Hashlamoun was given two life sentences by a military court in March for the November 10, 2014 murder of Dalia Lemkus, 26, and the attempted murder of two other people on a road in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, south of Jerusalem.

Last week, the Zionist government ordered an intensification of punitive home demolitions in response to a wave of stabbing and shooting attacks and other deadly unrest.

It says the controversial policy acts as a deterrent but critics say the main victims of such demolitions are relatives forced to pay for another person's actions.