Death of Tiran Fero

On 23 November 2022, a 17-year old Israeli Druze student named Tiran Fero, from Daliyat al-Karmel, was severely injured in a car crash near the Palestinian city of Jenin, where he was going to a car mechanic. He was brought to a local hospital for treatment. According to his family members, he died after being removed from life support and his body was held hostage by members of the Jenin Brigades, a Palestinian armed group. However, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian sources have said that he was already dead when the militants seized his body. The Jenin Brigades attempted to exchange Fero's body for the bodies of Palestinians held by Israel but released the body after 30 hours of diplomatic pressure and threats of military intervention from the IDF.