Sunday, November 27, 2022

A Basic Humanitarian Measure

"When we were in the hospital, we were standing in front of the intensive care unit. My son was connected to the ventilator and had a heartbeat."
"I was with my brother and my son. Suddenly a gang of 20 masked men entered the room screaming."
"We stood by and there was nothing we could do. They kidnapped the body in front of my eyes."
Husam Fero, father of abducted Israeli Druze teen
Tiran Fero. (Courtesy)

 Palestinian terrorists from the West Bank city of Jenin raided a hospital in Jenin treating an Israeli Druze teen who was on life support. The  young man, still in high school, was with a friend when they were involved in a car accident, and both were rushed to hospital. In the presence of the youth's father and uncle, the terrorists stormed the hospital, removed Tiran Fero from the equipment breathing for him, and took his body back to their encampment.

News had reached them that an Israeli had been brought to the Jenin hospital. Their object was to abduct the teen, presumably dead or alive, to use him as a bargaining chip for the return of the bodies of some of their terrorist gang members. In all likelihood it was not initially known to them that this was a Druze teen. They were likely under the impression that it could have been a Jewish teen, or more likely a member of the Israel Defence Forces.

In the wake of the shocking incident -- the Israeli Druze Arab minority, citizens of the country many of whom serve in the Israeli security forces and are linked to Palestinians -- thousands of Druze marched in angry protest, demanding the immediate return of the boy's body to his family. The Palestinian Authority, working in tandem with the IDF succeeded in having the boy's body released to his family.

The fact that this Jenin group felt compelled to rush in strength into the hospital in search of a vulnerable teen who might have survived his catastrophic injuries given a chance, choosing to disconnect him from hospital equipment while he still lived, is symptomatic of a hellishly hateful mindset incited by groups such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, governing Gaza.

In very fact, in the immediate aftermath of a recent double bombing of two bus stations in Jerusalem that injured 18 Israelis and caused the death of a 15-year-old Canadian-Israeli youth on his way to his Yeshiva classroom, during the morning rush-hour, Hamas responded by congratulating the bombers for a job well done.

According to the Palestinian governor of Jenin the abduction of young Fero was "a big mistake", that Palestinian officials went to great lengths to secure the release of his body, extending condolences to Fero's family and the Druze community. A courtesy that never occurs from the same source when it is an Israeli Jewish citizen whose life is taken by Palestinian terrorists.

On the other hand, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz thanked the Palestinian officials involved "who worked tirelessly" to accomplish the Druze teen's body's return to his  grieving family. "This is a basic humanitarian measure taken after a horrific incident", he observed.
 
Mourners hold up a picture of Druze teenager Tiran Fero at his funeral in Daliyat al-Karmel, northern Israel, November 24, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

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