Link fixed at 1145 CT. AoS.Arab locals pelted security forces in the Hebron area with rocks following the death of terrorist Ali Ismail Ahmed Sweiti, who was killed in a joint operation by the IDF, Shin Bet and Border Police on Monday.
Collect the rocks and put them on Sweiti's grave ...
Sweiti was killed Monday morning in an exchange of fire with security forces in the village of Beit Awa.
Earlier that morning, IDF troops and a special police force had surrounded Sweiti's house and called out to him using a megaphone in an attempt to get him to turn himself in. Sweiti, however, barricaded himself inside the house and began to shoot at the troops outside.
"You'll never take me alive, you Zionist infidels!"
The troops shot at the outer wall of the house and used various means to destroy parts of it. It was unclear whether he was killed in the exchange of fire or in the house demolition.
Does it matter?
Sweiti, who killed 20-year-old border policeman Yaniv Mashiach and wounded two others in an ambush in the southern Hebron Hills on Remembrance Day in 2004, had been on Israel's wanted list for six years. The 42-year-old terrorist, a resident of Beit Awa, was a member of an armed Hamas cell. He was said by the IDF to have taken part in five terrorist attacks between the years 1999 and 2004.
Sweiti joined Hamas in 2002 at the behest of another Beit Awa local, Jihad Mohammed Ismail Sweiti, himself a wanted terrorist and perpetrator of attacks in which Israelis were killed.
There's a common thread here. More than one, in fact ...
Together, the two allegedly carried out several shooting attacks against Israeli vehicles in the West Bank between 2000 and 2003. Although Jihad Sweiti was killed by the IDF in 2004, Ali Sweiti continued to be involved in terrorist activity and managed to flee during an attempt to arrest him in 2007.