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2022-11-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Diplomatic push and IDF threats said behind return of body seized by Palestinians
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[IsraelTimes] Reports say UN and US officials interceded with Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
and PA, while Israeli military had prepared a wide-scale operation to bring home remains of teen Tiran Fero
A large-scale international diplomatic effort took place to secure the release of the body of Tiran Fero, a Druze teenager whose remains were snatched by Lions of Islam from a hospital in the West Bank this week, according to a report Thursday.
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Citing Israeli and Western sources, Walla news reported that UN Middle East Envoy Tor Wennesland even made an appeal to the leaders of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group in Damascus.
United States Security Coordinator Gen. Michael Penzel was also involved in coordinating with the Paleostinian Authority, the report said, noting that PA security services were ordered to try and facilitate the return of the body.
Fero was critically injured in a car crash in Jenin and taken to a hospital in the Paleostinian city on Tuesday, where he died and his body was snatched by unidentified button men.
An Israeli official told the news site that the head of the gang that kidnapped Fero’s body was related to the currently tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin, Zakaria Zubeidi, but he was affiliated with PIJ.
The official noted that another family member of the leader of the group had recently been killed in a clash with IDF forces, and said his body was being held by Israel.
Security officials said that the suspects had been demanding the release of Paleostinians imprisoned by Israel or the bodies of deceased Paleostinian Lions of Islam being held by Israel in exchange for Fero, who was a senior in high school.
In the background of the diplomacy was a warning from Israel and the IDF that if the body was not returned, Israel would launch a large-scale operation in the West Bank, the report said.
"Everyone understood that it could have been a bloodbath," a Western diplomat told the news site.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier...
Wennesland reportedly mulled an immediate visit to Jenin, but PA intelligence chief Majed Faraj told him it was unnecessary, the diplomat said.
Wennesland then made contact with PIJ leader in Damascus Ziad Nakhaleh to demand the body be released, but the latter denied that his group was involved in the kidnapping.
Still, according to the report citing officials, Nakhaleh then called the armed cell himself and warned them to release the body immediately.
"Nakhaleh understood that this incident could lead to a broad conflict that did not suit the PIJ at the current time," the Western diplomat said, according to the report.
The body was handed over to PA intelligence officials, who later brought it to the Salem checkpoint, where it was handed over to Fero’s family. Hours later, he was laid to rest.
Thousands of mourners walked in Fero’s funeral procession, in his majority-Druze hometown of Daliyat al-Karmel in northern Israel, on what would have been his 18th birthday.
Though his family claimed that Paleostinian button men detached him from life support when they grabbed him from the hospital, the military and a senior defense source insisted he was already dead when he was taken.
His body was held for around 30 hours.
Israel did not give anything in exchange 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." 
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