The family of a man who was shot dead during a police raid in the Bedouin town of Tarabin overnight says he was killed the moment he opened his front door.
“From what we understand, the moment he opened the door to his house, they shot him,” Yusef Alwadara, a cousin of 36-year-old Muhammad Hussein Tarabin, tells the Haaretz newspaper.
Alwadara says police took Tarabin’s body, “and none of us know physically where his body is,” calling his death “murder in every way.”
Police have asserted that Tarabin had “endangered the troops that operated in Tarabin.”
Another relative tells Haaretz: “How could he have endangered anyone inside his house when he had just woken up? He just opened his door and got a bullet to the chest.”
The police officer involved in the shooting is being investigated by the Department of Internal Police Investigations, and has been praised by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who has urged the crackdown on the town.
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