Military engineers blew up the West Bank homes of two Palestinian terrorists who murdered seven people and wounded 15 in Tel Aviv in October, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.

Members of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit and the Judea Regional Brigade demolished the homes of the two terrorists during operations in the West Bank city of Hebron overnight and in the morning, the IDF said.

The terrorists, Ahmed Himouni, 25, and Mohammad Mesek, 19, went on a shooting and stabbing spree at a light rail station in the Jaffa area of the city on October 1, just minutes before Iran launched a massive missile attack on Israel.

On October 1, the two terrorists, one of whom was armed with a rifle and the other with a knife, attacked civilians on the Tel Aviv light rail before getting off and continuing on foot and shooting and stabbing people on Jerusalem Street in the city.

Mesek was shot dead by a municipal security officer, and Himouni was seriously wounded after being shot by armed civilians.

It was one of the deadliest single attacks in Israel in recent years.

The seven civilians murdered in the attack were Victor Shimshon Green, 33; Revital Bronstein, 24; Shahar Goldman, 30; Inbar Segev Vigder, 33; Nadia Sokolenco, 40; Ilia Nozadze, 42, a Georgian citizen; and Jonas Chrosis, 26, a Greek citizen.

As a matter of policy, Israel demolishes the homes of Palestinians accused of carrying out deadly terror attacks.

Jerusalem defends the practice of razing the family home of attackers as a deterrent against future assaults. Over the years, a number of Israeli defense officials have questioned the efficacy of the practice, and human rights activists have denounced it as unfair collective punishment.