Israeli forces raid home of Palestinian shot dead after alleged vehicular attack
July 18, 2017 7:39 P.M. (Updated: July 18, 2017 10:50 P.M.)
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HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided the family home of 29-year-old Rafat Hirbawi — who was shot dead by Israeli forces earlier on Tuesday after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack — in Hebron city in the southern occupied West Bank.
Hirbawi was killed after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack at the entrance of Beit Einun north of Hebron. Two Israeli soldiers were lightly injured during the incident.
Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces surrounded and raided the home, and interrogated Hirbawi’s brother.
Following actual or alleged attacks on Israelis, Israeli authorities routinely target family members of the Palestinian assailants, often times revoking their Israeli permits, detaining them, and punitively demolishing their homes.
Israeli soldiers and officers prevented journalists and locals from taking pictures or videos of the raid. Israeli forces also confiscated the mobile phone of Ma’an reporter Duaa al-Atrash as she was attempting to cover the incident, and removed all videos she had recorded before handing it back.
An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed the raid, telling Ma’an that the “assailant’s home was raided following the attack,” but did not provide further details.
Hirwbawi, a resident of Ramallah city, was married and a father of two children. He was working as a food supplies distributor before being killed in the alleged attack.
According to Ma’an documentation, 45 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year — eight of whom were killed in the past seven days alone.
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Palestinian killed after alleged vehicular attack in southern West Bank
July 18, 2017 2:36 P.M. (Updated: July 18, 2017 9:47 P.M.)
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(...) Palestinian security sources identified the slain
Palestinian as 29-year-old Rafaat Nathmi Shukri Hirbawi from Hebron City.
Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Mazda car with Palestinian license plates, in which two people were riding. The Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an, however, that they were only aware of one person in the vehicle.
Immediately after shooting at the vehicle, large numbers of Israeli troops arrived at the scene and closed off the road to traffic, the eyewitnesses said, adding that the soldiers denied a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance access to the wounded Palestinian. (...)