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| IDF arrests PA gunman’s brother, revokes family’s work permits |
| 2016-11-02 |
| [IsraelTimes] Small-scale festivities break out in Qabatiya during raid on home of Paleostinian policeman who shot Israeli soldiers on Monday The brother of a Paleostinian security services officer who shot at a group of Israeli soldiers, wounding three, at a checkpoint outside Ramallah Monday, was tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! in the northern West Bank as part of a series of early-morning raids Tuesday, the army said. In addition, Israeli soldiers revoked the work permits belonging to family members of the gunman, Muhammad Turkman, at the family’s home in Qabatiya, south of Jenin, the Israel Defense Forces said. On Monday evening, Turkman approached the Focus checkpoint, near Ramallah, and opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle at the troops stationed there. One soldier was seriously maimed in the attack -- his condition was later upgraded to "moderate" -- while two others sustained light injuries from shrapnel, according to medical authorities. In Turkman’s home village of Qabatiya, small-scale festivities broke out between local residents and Israeli forces during the early Tuesday morning raid to arrest the gunman’s brother, who was identified by official Paleostinian Authority media as Muhannad Turkman, 23. Photos of the scene, posted on social media, showed rocks and cinderblocks scattered along the road in the Paleostinian village, as well as a fire raging in the middle of the street. According to an army spokesperson, Molotov cocktails were thrown at the troops, although she said that type of clash was "not out of the ordinary." There were no serious injuries reported on either side. A larger skirmish also broke out in the Deheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem, between local residents and a joint IDF-Border Police contingent on Monday night, with approximately 30 Paleostinians throwing rocks and improvised bombs at the troops, the army said. The Israeli force responded with non-lethal riot dispersal means, including flash-bang grenades, an IDF spokesperson said. There, too, no serious injuries were reported. In the West Bank village of Deir Ballut, east of Petah Tikva, IDF soldiers also arrested a Paleostinian suspected of having defaced and damaged the security fence separating Israel from the West Bank, the army said. During a raid in Talfit, southeast of Nablus, Israeli forces arrested three alleged members of the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group, the IDF said. Another five Paleostinians -- one from Dura, near Hebron, and four from Tubas, in the northeastern West Bank -- were arrested for allegedly throwing rocks or taking part in violent protests, according to the army. PA forces raided home of Palestinian cop before attack, father says [IsraelTimes] Unclear if move was meant to prevent attack, or prompted Turkman’s shooting of IDF soldiers; cop’s brother was Al Aqsa Marty’s brigade member killed in 2011 Paleostinian security Monday night raided the family home of a Paleostinian police officer hours before he opened fire on IDF soldiers in the West Bank, according to testimony from the attacker’s father. Muhammad Turkman, 25, maimed three soldiers with an AK-47 assault rifle on Tuesday at the Focus checkpoint, near Ramallah. Hours earlier, security forces burst into his family’s home in the West Bank village of Qabatiya, near Jenin, and confiscated weapons, Turkman’s parents told the Paleostinian news site Quds Net on Tuesday. However, ars longa, vita brevis... it is not clear if security forces raided the home to prevent an attack, or if the raid itself prompted Turkman to carry out the shooting. In a separate interview with the Arab Israeli radio station A-shams, Turkman’s father, Abdul Khaleq, said his mother had called their son after the raid, and suggested this prompted him to carry out the attack. "His mother told Muhammad what happened, and it seems it angered him greatly. He had his personal weapon on him issued by the security forces. We don’t know what his reaction was," the father said. Muhammad is the second son from the Turkman family to be killed in recent years. His brother Rabia, who was a member of Fatah’s armed wing, the Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade, was killed in 2011 as a result of festivities with the IDF in Ramallah, Quds Net reported. An unnamed source told the pro-Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", outlet Palinfo that an AK-47, a homemade cartridge and ammunition were confiscated from the Turkman home during the raid. According to a senior Paleostinian security source, Turkman was a guard at the Paleostinian parliament. After his shift, he took a gun without permission and carried out the attack, Israel Radio reported on Monday. Adnan Damiri, the spokesperson for the Paleostinian Security Forces, told Israel Radio on Tuesday his side still had "nothing" in their own investigation into the shooting. He added that the IDF does not do joint-investigations with the PA security forces, even when PA police are suspects. |
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