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Father of Palestinian American teen killed in West Bank discusses son’s death [1]
['Amna Nawaz', 'Sonia Kopelev']
Date: 2024-02-09 18:30:35-05:00
Amna Nawaz:
The New Orleans community is mourning the loss of a Palestinian-American teenager killed in the West Bank last month; 17-year-old Tawfic Abdel Jabbar is one of the 94 children among the 370 Palestinians killed in clashes on the West Bank since October 7, according to the United Nations.
In late January, over 100 cars formed a motorcade in his memory along a New Orleans highway.
I spoke with his father, Hafeth Abdel Jabbar, earlier this week from the West Bank, and I asked him what happened to his son.
Hafeth Abdel Jabbar, Father of Tawfic Abdel Jabbar: What I know and what happened is, my son was traveling from one piece of property to another piece of property with a friend. Me — and with other friends, so they can do a barbecue.
And as he was traveling, he was, I think, ambushed by a settler, retired police officer, a soldier. We're not sure. There was three different weapons used. The truck was hit with 10 bullets, four of them, is very clear, to the driver's side, and two of them to the passenger side.
But, luckily, and thanks God, the passenger had ducked, and he's 16 years old also. He's an American citizen. And he was traveling towards the village on a dirt road from the mountain. And that's when he was struck and lost control of the car and flipped three times or four times, and it came to stop.
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