CNN
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The frame of an Israeli Druze younger guy that used to be seized by means of Palestinian gunmen in Jenin has been transferred to his circle of relatives, the Israeli army stated on Thursday, including that not anything have been given in go back.
“We didn’t negotiate in any way with the gunmen that had the body,” an IDF spokesperson stated all through a briefing. “We didn’t give anything in return. I think at some point they understood that the consequences for this happening would have been very hard for the Jenin economy.”
Gunmen had stormed a Jenin medical institution and seized the frame of Tiran Ferro, who have been in a automobile coincidence within the West Bank, government on either side of the battle stated Wednesday. The gunmen have been tough the go back of the our bodies of Palestinians killed by means of Israeli troops, they stated.
Israel closed roads out and in of Jenin on Wednesday after the frame used to be seized, and reopened them on Thursday after it used to be returned.
Jenin governor Maj. Gen. Akram Rajoub instructed CNN that Palestinian Authority safety officers had led negotiations with the gunmen who held the frame.
“The PA General Intelligence Service had contacts with one of the kidnappers, which facilitated the body’s return to the General Intelligence Service headquarters in Jenin,” Rajoub stated.
There is a dispute about whether or not Ferro used to be alive or lifeless when gunmen burst into his medical institution room in Jenin and took his frame.
Ferro’s father instructed Israeli media on Wednesday {the teenager} used to be alive and brought off existence beef up. But Jenin governor Akram Rajoub instructed CNN that Ferro used to be lifeless when his frame used to be taken.
Ferro’s father stated: “When we have been within the medical institution, we have been status in entrance of the in depth care unit. My son used to be attached to the ventilator and had a heartbeat. I used to be with my brother and my son, all at once a gang of 20 masked males entered the room screaming. We stood by means of and there used to be not anything we may have finished.
“They kidnapped the body in front of my eyes,” Ferro’s father instructed journalists on digital camera.
But Jenin governor Rajoub instructed CNN that Ferro used to be lifeless when his frame used to be taken.
The Jenin Brigade, a Palestinian militant team based totally within the West Bank refugee camp, stated Wednesday in a commentary got by means of CNN that it used to be preserving the frame of Ferro and demanded Israel quit all of the our bodies of Palestinians killed by means of the IDF in Israel’s ownership. The team additionally stated it had raised the state of alert amongst its individuals in anticipation of Israeli forces storming the Jenin camp.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid vowed Wednesday that “the kidnappers would pay a heavy price” if Tiran’s Ferro’s frame used to be no longer returned: “Israel has proven in recent months that there is no place and no terrorist that it does not know how to reach.”
Lapid stated Ferro used to be going to rejoice his 18th birthday on Thursday. He used to be a member of the Druze minority, neighborhood leaders instructed CNN.
