Palestinians return body of Israeli Druze teenager
Palestinians returned the body of an Israeli Druze student on Thursday morning after gunmen took it from a hospital in Jenin the previous day.
“After efforts by the security establishment in coordination with the Palestinian Authority, the body of Tiran Fero, the young Israeli killed in a car accident in Jenin, is now being transferred to his family in Israel,” the IDF said in a statement this morning.
Tiran Fero, a 12th-grade student in the Druze town of Daliyat al-Karmel, near Haifa, was injured in a car crash in Jenin. Due to his critical condition, Fero was evacuated to the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin. The gunmen apparently believed he was an undercover IDF soldier.
Fero will be laid to rest in Daliyat al Karmel on Thursday at 2:00 p.m., on what would have been his 18th birthday.
The IDF’s initial announcement of the abduction implied that Fero was already dead, but the family says the gunmen killed him when they disconnected Fero from medical machines.
