Residents of the West Bank town of Hebron remove belongings from the house of Ibrahim Saouw, who was involved in a gunfight with Israeli police on Sunday. Israel is demolishing homes of Palestinian attackers.

RAMALLAH, West Bank ? The Idris family doesn’t have anywhere to go, but they’ve moved the furniture and clothes out of their home, leaving it virtually empty.

The Israelis are knocking down the houses of Palestinian attackers, and the Idrises believe they are on the list of families whose homes will soon be demolished because 27-year-old Wafa Idris the first female Palestinian suicide bomber carried out a deadly attack in Jerusalem in January.

As the Idris family packed its belongings, Israel’s Supreme Court upheld the military’s right Tuesday to tear down homes of Palestinian terror suspects without warning. The court rejected a petition by 35 Palestinian families whose homes are believed slated for demolition. The petitioners asked for 48 hours notice to give them time to try to stop the demolitions with a court order.

In the past week, Israeli troops have demolished more than 10 homes belonging to attackers in the West Bank, reviving a practice abandoned several years ago. When Israeli troops arrive at homes, they give families just a few minutes to get out before the demolition begins.

The Israeli government argues it faces an onslaught of shooting and bombing attacks, and that house demolitions are intended to deter extremists who will now know their actions will harm their families.

In Ramallah’s congested al-Amari refugee camp, 23 people and three generations live in the Idris home, a few miles north of Jerusalem.

Wafa Idris traveled to Jerusalem and set off a bomb on a busy downtown street on Jan. 27, killing herself and an 81-year-old Israeli man and wounding dozens. As the first female suicide bomber in the current round of violence, she was widely regarded as a heroine among Palestinians, with posters of her plastered on buildings throughout Ramallah.

The Idris family was having dinner and watching television on Monday evening when “two of my friends arrived and told us to start evacuating the house immediately,” said Khalil Idris, 32, Wafa’s brother.

The friends said Israeli authorities had been taking pictures of the house and Palestinian officials had received word the Idris home was among those that would be torn down. The family swiftly removed furniture and clothes, putting them in a neighbor’s yard.

“Our house is going to be demolished, we will be homeless,” said Safe Idris, 67, adding that her children and grandchildren had left the house to stay with neighbors and friends.