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Huwara terror attack: Suspect identified, IDF maps home for demolition - report

 
 Israeli security forces secure the scene of a shooting attack in Huwara, in the West Bank, near Nablus, August 19, 2023 (photo credit: FLASH90)
Israeli security forces secure the scene of a shooting attack in Huwara, in the West Bank, near Nablus, August 19, 2023
(photo credit: FLASH90)

The suspect's family claimed that Israeli forces had threatened to kill the suspect if he didn't give himself up.

The Palestinian suspected of carrying out the terrorist attack in Huwara in which Silas (Shai) Nigerker and his son Aviad Nir were murdered on Saturday has been identified as Osama Issa Bani Fadl from the town of Aqraba, east of Huwara, Israeli and Palestinian media reported on Thursday.

Early Thursday morning, Palestinian media reported that Israeli forces had mapped Bani Fadl's home in preparation for its possible demolition, despite the fact that Bani Fadl still has not been apprehended.

Osama's father, Issa Bani Fadl told Palestinian media that Israeli security forces told him "Your son is a young man in the beginning of his life, and we do not want to hand him over to you for a funeral. We want him to turn himself in. Being imprisoned is better than being killed."

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Issa stated "I don’t know where he is, I only know that he went out to work, otherwise I don’t know anything," adding that the security forces warned that they were giving Bani Fadl three days to give himself up.

 IDF troops operating in the West Bank. August 24, 2023 (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
IDF troops operating in the West Bank. August 24, 2023 (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

Manhunt for Huwara terrorist continues

Israeli security forces have been conducting an extensive manhunt in the area around Huwara since Nigerker and Nir were murdered in a shooting attack at a car wash in the Palestinian town on Saturday.

Palestinian media has reported that the entrances of a number of Palestinian towns in the area have been periodically closed by Israeli forces as part of the manhunt.

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