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2022-11-24 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Teenager’s body snatched by Palestinian gunmen returned to family in Israel
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[IsraelTimes] IDF says Tiran Fero brought back with help of PA after being kidnapped from Jenin hospital in incident that infuriated Druze community and threatened to spiral into major crisis
The body of an Israeli teen that had been snatched by gunnies from a hospital in the West Bank was returned to Israel early Thursday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said, averting a potentially major crisis.
"After efforts by the security establishment in coordination with the Paleostinian 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 at around 5 a.m.
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Fero, who was meant to celebrate his 18th birthday on Thursday, was from the Druze-majority town of Daliyat al-Karmel. He was critically injured in a car crash in Jenin and taken to a hospital in the Paleostinian city on Tuesday due to his severe condition.
His family claimed that Paleostinian button men detached him from life support and grabbed him from the hospital, while the military and a senior defense source said that he was already dead when he was taken.
His body was returned to his family in Israel after being held by gunnies in the West Bank for around 30 hours. The body was transferred over at the Salem crossing near Jenin.
Fero’s funeral is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday, with the Daliyat al-Karmel mayor declaring a day of mourning in the town.
Various Israeli media reports had suggested that intensive negotiations were underway Wednesday evening to secure the release of Fero’s body, involving those in the highest echelons of government and the security establishment in both Israel and the Paleostinian Authority.
Israel had sought a diplomatic solution to the crisis but was also preparing for a military operation to retrieve the body, Channel 13 reported.
Lapid said Wednesday that "if Tiran’s body is not returned, the kidnappers will pay a heavy price."
Unnamed security officials had said that the suspects had been demanding the release of Paleostinians imprisoned by Israel or the bodies of deceased Paleostinian gunnies being held by Israel in exchange for Fero, who was a senior in high school.
The Kan public broadcaster cited Paleostinian officials as saying that there had been a possible breakthrough in the talks to return Fero’s body on Wednesday night, but that Israeli officials had rejected any demand for a prisoner exchange deal.
But Israel ended up not giving anything in return for the body, a senior defense source told news hounds Thursday morning, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
"We held no negotiations with those who were holding the body. We gave nothing in return," the source said. "We clarified that this body was going back to the family. The Paleostinian Authority put pressure to end the saga quickly because it was embarrassed, and in Jenin, the kidnappers lost support after the public understood it would be paying a heavy financial price."
"Also, according to the information we received, Tiran died about an hour before the kidnapping and not after it," the source said, responding to the claims made by his family.
The kidnapping of Fero infuriated the Druze community in Israel. On Wednesday, thousands demonstrated in Fero’s hometown Daliyat al-Karmel and at a protest march blocking off a major highway.
More than one member of the community cited by the Walla news site said that if Fero’s body was not returned quickly, they may have attempted to enter Jenin and retrieve him themselves.
Channel 12 posted a video of five masked men holding rifles threatening to go into Jenin to retrieve the body if it was not returned by Thursday morning.
Several Paleostinian sources had indicated that Tiran’s body was being held in the Jenin Refugee Camp. Paleostinians had set up barricades around the city in anticipation of an IDF raid.
On Wednesday morning, COGAT, the military’s liaison to the Paleostinians, announced that the Jalamah and Salem checkpoints in the northern West Bank would be shuttered. The crossings were reopened on Thursday morning.
The Jenin area has been seen as a major hotspot for terror in recent months and the Paleostinian Authority is believed to be losing control of the region.
Paleostinian button men, mostly in the northern West Bank, have repeatedly targeted troops conducting arrest raids, as well as military posts, soldiers operating along the West Bank security barrier, Israeli settlements and civilians on the roads.
The incident in Jenin came as the military pressed on with a major anti-terror offensive mostly focused on Jenin and Nablus, to deal with a series of Paleostinian attacks that have left 30 people in Israel and the West Bank dead since the start of the year. 
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