Israel raids home of Palestinian shot dead after alleged vehicular attack

Israeli forces raided the family home of 29-year-old Rafat Hirbawi -- who was shot dead by Israeli troopers earlier on Tuesday after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack -- in the occupied city of al-Khalil ('Hebron') in the southern West Bank.

Hirbawi was killed after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack at the entrance of Beit Einun north of al-Khalil. Two Israeli troopers were lightly injured during the incident.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces surrounded and raided the home, and interrogated Hirbawi’s brother.

Following actual or alleged attacks on Israelis, Israeli authorities routinely target family members of the Palestinian assailants, often times revoking their Israeli permits, detaining them, and punitively demolishing their homes.  

Israeli troopers and officers prevented journalists and locals from taking pictures or videos of the raid.

They also confiscated the mobile phone of Ma’an reporter Duaa al-Atrash as she was attempting to cover the incident, and removed all videos she had recorded before handing it back.

Hirwbawi, a resident of Ramallah city, was married and a father of two children. He was working as a food supplies distributor before being murdered in the alleged attack.