In another example of the depravity of Palestinian militants, 18-year-old Tiran Pero, an Israeli-Arab citizen who lives in the Druze town of Daliyat Al Carmel, was killed yesterday after militants took him off life-support in a hospital in the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Jenin; his body was then kidnapped by the terrorists who belong to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. Pero had been in a car accident after shopping in Jenin and was taken to the hospital in critical condition and placed on life support.
The family of Pero, who was supposed to celebrate his 18th birthday tomorrow, met tonight with an Israel Defense Forces official in charge of West Bank coordination, Major General Rasan Aliyan, with the goal of getting his body returned as soon as possible.
The family members of Tiran Pero, the Israeli Druze kidnapped in Jenin:
ā Adam Albilya (@AdamAlbilya) November 23, 2022
- "20 armed men came, disconnected him from the ventilator, and kidnapped him - we're not ready for them to endanger soldiers during an operation to free Tiran's body"
Such a brave & inspirational family ā¤ļø pic.twitter.com/CM816wOy3K
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades took responsibility for the kidnapping, and later announced "a full alert and mobilization among our fighters to deal with the occupation forces' attempts to attack the Jenin camp tonight." Earlier, the organization published a statement according to which "the Jenin Brigade is the one that kidnapped the young man's body, which is with us in the refugee camp in Jenin." The militants did not mention that the man they had killed was Arab, instead making it out to be he was an Israeli soldier in order to justify their actions.
Armed Palestinians have kidnapped the body of 17y old Arab Israeli Druze named Tiran Pero who got killed in a car accident tonight in Jenin. One of them was recorded at the entrance of the hospital: "We demand the return of the bodies of Pal' terrorists in return". #Inhumanity . pic.twitter.com/M15apDsubk
ā Shmuel Shalom ש×××× ×©××× Ų³Ł Ų¤Ų§Ł Ų¹ŲØŲÆ Ų§ŁŲ³ŁŲ§Ł (@ShmuelShalom) November 23, 2022
An IDF spokesman said that the young man entered Jenin yesterday with another citizen through the Gilboa crossing. They were involved in a serious car accident and were taken to the local hospital for treatment. It is not uncommon for Arab-Israelis to go into Palestinian cities in Samaria and Judea as services and goods are considerably cheaper as there is no 17% value-added tax charged as there is within Israel. It was said Pero was buying parts for his car or getting his car fixed.
"They performed a complex operation on him," his father told reporters. "Before he died, he was sedated and ventilated and then the armed men entered in front of my eyes as I was by the door. My son was murdered, he was murdered. They disconnected him from the devices and kidnapped him in front of my eyes. It was shocking."
The young man was taken from the hospital in Jenin, and "the expectation is that his body will be returned to his family in Israel as soon as possible, as a necessary humanitarian step," an IDF spokesperson said. Pero was treated in a Palestinian hospital unlike his friend, who was wounded and taken to Rambam Hospital in Haifa for medical treatment. Pero's condition was considered too dire to travel the distance to Haifa which could take 45 minutes in an ambulance.
Tiran Pero, a 17 year old Israeli Arab Druze boy was killed in a serious car accident near Jenin. Palestinian terrorists kidnapped his body to trade it for the release of imprisoned terrorists.
ā ×××”×£ ×××× - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) November 23, 2022
This is simply unbridled evil and inhumanity! pic.twitter.com/9EsavrqIsS
The leader of the Druze community, Sheikh Muafek Tarif, held talks with a number of officials, including Jenin governor Akram al-Rajub and senior officials in the Palestinian Authority, and demanded that Peru's body be handed over to his family immediately. It is suspected that the militants took the body to hold in exchange for something. In the past, Israel has traded dozens of prisoners for a single soldier's body. In one of the most famous exchanges, Israel traded 1,027 prisoners, 280 serving life sentences for planning and perpetrating various terror attacks against Israeli targets, in exchange for the hostage, Gilad Shalit.
"This is a human and basic matter. Keeping the body is contrary to every moral, religious and social custom. It is unthinkable and it is not acceptable that after many hours have passed since the death is known, the matter has not been resolved," Sheikh Tarif said.
In a tone-deaf statement that highlights their lack of morals, the Hamas spokesperson, Abdel-Latif al-Kanou, said that the clashes taking place "reflect the bravery of the rebellious youths in dealing with the occupation forces." According to him, "The cities of Nablus and Jenin and their camps will remain forbidden to the Zionist occupation, our people will continue the revolution to thwart the occupation plans and protect their land."
