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<h1 id="reader-title">Israeli leaders celebrate extrajudicial
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<span class="field field-author"><a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/people/maureen-clare-murphy">Maureen
Clare Murphy</a></span> <span class="field field-blog">-</span>
<span class="field field-publication-date"><span
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content="2018-02-06T22:41:33+00:00">6 February 2018</span></span>
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<p>In the early morning hours on Tuesday Israeli
occupation forces killed a Palestinian man who they
claim was involved in the shooting death of an Israeli
settler in early January.</p>
<p>A second Palestinian was <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/palestinians-one-killed-forty-wounded-in-clashes-with-israeli-army-in-nablus-1.5793081">reportedly
killed</a> during confrontations with soldiers in
the northern occupied West Bank on Tuesday night. The
confrontations erupted as the Israeli military
surrounded a house in Nablus belonging to the father
of a Palestinian who Israel suspects of fatally
stabbing another Israeli settler a day earlier.</p>
<p>Palestinian outlets identified the person slain in
Nablus as Khalid Abu Tayeh:</p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority health ministry <a
href="http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/PA-Health-Ministry-says-one-killed-in-clashes-with-IDF-540889">stated</a>
that 32 people were injured by live fire during the
confrontations and six were critically wounded.</p>
<p>Statements by Israeli leaders and intelligence bodies
indicate that the Palestinian killed during the
pre-dawn hours on Tuesday may have been
extrajudicially executed, <a
href="http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=10369">according to</a>
the Palestinian Center for Human rights.</p>
<p>Ahmad Nasser Jarrar, 22, was shot and his body taken
away by the Israeli military during the raid on Yamoun
village near the city of Jenin, also in the northern
West Bank.</p>
<p>The military had been in pursuit of Jarrar for more
than a month following the <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israeli-man-killed-in-west-bank-drive-by-shooting-attack-1.5730223">9
January slaying of Rabbi Raziel Shevach</a>, a
resident of Havat Gilad, a West Bank settlement
outpost not formally authorized by the Israeli
government.</p>
<p>Two Palestinians were previously killed by Israeli
soldiers during their campaign to find Jarrar.</p>
<h2>Pressure cooker procedure</h2>
<p>The Palestinian Center for Human Rights stated that a
large force of Israeli soldiers “accompanied [by] a
bulldozer and backed by a drone and helicopter” moved
into Yamoun village at 4am on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The force surrounded an abandoned building that was
formerly used by the Palestinian Authority National
Security Forces.</p>
<p>“Explosions and heavy shooting were heard in the
area,” according to the rights group.</p>
<p>At around 7am Israeli media began reporting that
Ahmad Nasser Jarrar was killed.</p>
<p>The army <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/israel-security-forces-kill-murderer-of-west-bank-rabbi-in-raid-1.5791086">claimed</a>
that Jarrar was shot to death when he emerged from the
surrounded building carrying an M-16 rifle.</p>
<p>The Israeli outlet <em>Ynet</em> <a
href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5092027,00.html">reported</a>
that Jarrar had at first “refused to surrender,” and
that the military launched a missile at the building,
“following which combat engineering troops started
demolishing the house with a bulldozer to pressure him
to exit the structure.”</p>
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<p>This Israeli army tactic, in which construction
equipment is employed as a weapon, is known as the <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/tags/pressure-cooker-procedure">“pressure
cooker” procedure</a>.</p>
<p>The army <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/one-generation-later-another-war-crime">employed
the tactic</a> during a massive military raid on the
Wadi Burqin neighborhood near Jenin that began the
night of 17 January and ended the next morning.</p>
<p>Israel initially claimed that a Palestinian killed
during that raid was Ahmad Nasser Jarrar but
Palestinian sources announced that the slain man was
Ahmad Ismail Jarrar, a cousin of the wanted fighter.
The army seized Ahmad Ismail Jarrar’s body during the
operation and has yet to return his remains to his
family for burial.</p>
<p>Occupation forces <a
href="http://www.alhaq.org/documentation/weekly-focuses/1180-six-palestinians-killed-in-january-as-israel-continues-to-employ-excessive-use-of-force-in-the-opt">continued
to raid homes</a> in the Jenin area in search of
Ahmad Nasser Jarrar after he evaded arrest during the
mid-January operation in Wadi Burqin.</p>
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<p>A Palestinian teenager was killed during a subsequent
raid in eastern Burqin on 3 February.</p>
<p>During that operation soldiers occupied rooftops and
fired sound bombs and explosives, <a
href="http://pchrgaza.org/en/?p=10361">according to</a>
the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.</p>
<p>The army used loudspeakers to call on Ahmad Nasser
Jarrar to surrender himself, threatening to demolish
all houses in the neighborhood.</p>
<p>Palestinian youths gathered in the area of the
operation and threw stones and empty bottles at the
soldiers, who opened fire on them.</p>
<p>Ahmad Samir Mahmoud Ubeid, 18, was shot in the head
and died from his injuries later that day.</p>
<p>Ahmad Nasser Jarrar was lauded as a hero by many
Palestinians after avoiding capture by the military
for several weeks.</p>
<p>Palestinians gathered in the streets of Burqin and
celebrated the military’s failure to seize Jarrar
during a raid on the village on Monday:</p>
<p>Israeli leaders greeted the news of Ahmad Nasser
Jarrar’s death with praise of the army.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/israel-security-forces-kill-murderer-of-west-bank-rabbi-in-raid-1.5791086">stated</a>
that Israeli forces will “reach anyone who tries to
attack Israeli citizens and we will bring them to
justice. The same applies to the murderers of Rabbi
Itamar Ben Gal,” referring to the settler fatally
stabbed on Monday.</p>
<p>Defense minister Avigdor Lieberman congratulated the
army and police units involved, adding that “It was
clear that it was only a matter of time until we hit
the head of the cell that murdered Rabbi Raziel
Shevach.”</p>
<p>He implied that Israeli forces would also kill the
Palestinian suspected in Monday’s slaying: “I hope and
believe that in the near future we will also extend
our hand to the murderer of Rabbi Itamar Ben Gal.”</p>
<p>Reuven Rivlin, Israel’s president, made a <a
href="https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/1.5791079">similar
statement</a>: “I have no doubt that the murderer of
Itamar Ben Gal and his collaborators will be pursued
until we reach them.”</p>
<p>The Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police, made no mention
of an exchange of fire in its statement on the
operation that led to Ahmad Nasser Jarrar’s death. The
absence of any claim that Jarrar opened fire on
Israeli soldiers “indicat[es] that the operation aimed
to kill Jarrar and not to arrest him,” according to
the Palestinian Center for Human Rights.</p>
<h2>Extrajudicial death penalty</h2>
<p>Israel has a <a
href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/year-atrocities-palestine">de
facto extrajudicial death penalty</a> for
Palestinians it suspects of harming Israelis. Israeli
media parrot the state’s condemnation of such
Palestinians without charge or trial.</p>
<p>Israel’s <em>Ynet</em> deferred to claims made by
the Shin Bet by <a
href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5092027,00.html">describing</a>
Jarrar as “the head of the terror cell responsible for
the murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevach,” adding that
Jarrar “personally took part in the shooting,” though
he was never tried in any court.</p>
<p>The Tel Aviv daily <em>Haaretz</em> similarly <a
href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/israel-security-forces-kill-murderer-of-west-bank-rabbi-in-raid-1.5791086">referred
to</a> Jarrar as “head operative responsible for the
January murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevach,” presenting
the Shin Bet’s claims as verified fact.</p>
<p><em>Haaretz</em> likewise described Ahmad Ismail
Jarrar, killed in the 17 January raid, as “another man
involved in the attack,” apparently treating the
claims of the Shin Bet as facts requiring no further
investigation or confirmation.</p>
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