The IDF and Border Police officers destroyed the home of the terrorist who killed Maj. Yuval Ezra, 27, and Capt. (res.) Benayahu Mellet, 32, in an overnight operation in the village of Tell in the West Bank, the military announced on Tuesday afternoon.
Soldiers from the IDF's Samaria Brigade, Yahalom Combat Engineers, and officers from the Border Police's Judea and Samaria Brigade took part in the operation.
Ezra and Mellet were killed during the July 24 West Bank attack near Gilad Farm, a settlement located southwest of Nablus.
Mellet was a member of Gilad Farm’s local emergency response squad and served in the reserves in regional defense. Ezra was an Artillery Corps battery commander who had returned to reinforce the sector after the military raised its level of readiness.
Command failures led to Yuval Ezra, Benayahu Mellet's deaths in West Bank attacks
Last week, the IDF published the findings of its investigation into the military's response to the attack and found significant operational and command failures.
The investigation found that the soldiers and local security personnel who entered the confrontation acted courageously and prevented further casualties but reached a rapidly expanding violent incident with insufficient forces, an incomplete understanding of what was happening, and serious failures in command and medical evacuation.
Four Palestinians from the Ramadan family were also killed during the confrontation near the village of Tell, southwest of Nablus.
The IDF said Palestinian attackers were killed in the exchange, but the findings released last week did not detail the individual role of each of the four or explain the circumstances in which each was shot.
The probe, published nearly two weeks after the incident, was presented to IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir by Central Command chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth and Judea and Samaria Division commander Brig.-Gen. Kobi Heller.
Sarah Ben-Nun and James Genn contributed to this report.