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Body of teen stolen from hospital returned to Israel

The IDF did not negotiate with the kidnappers directly and nothing was offered in return for the body

November 24, 2022 13:17
Tiran Fero
Members of the Israeli Druze minority attend the funeral of 17-year-old Tiran Fero, on November 24, 2022, in Daliyat al Karmel, around 20 kms southeast of Haifa. - The body of Tiran Fero, who was critically wounded in a car accident on November 22, was snatched by Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank and returned to his relatives, following intense talks to avoid an escalation of violence. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid had threatened tough reprisals against those who had taken the body of the Israeli teenager. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP) (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)
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The body of an Israeli teen snatched from a hospital by Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank and held for 30 hours has been returned to his family.

Tiran Fero, 17, had been rushed to hospital after being critically injured in a road smash in the Palestinian city of Jenin on Tuesday, but died shortly after he was admitted.

Within hours, according to the Israel Defence Forces and Palestinian media reports, a group of unidentified armed Palestinians entered the city’s Ibn Sina hospital and took away his body.

Mr Fero’s family, from the Druze-majority town of Daliyat al-Karmel, immediately aired their suspicions that the teenager was alive and on life support when they took him. The claim escalated tension in the region at an already-tense period.