Fathi Hazem, whose son, Ra’ad Hazem, killed three Israelis in a terrorist shooting at a bar in Tel Aviv earlier this month, has said he will not turn himself in unless Israel returns his son’s body. Ra’ad Hazem was killed in a gunfight with security forces near a mosque in Jaffa.
Following the attack, Israeli security forces raided the Jenin refugee camp several times in an attempt to detain the terrorist’s father and brother.
In a Facebook post, the former commander in the Palestinian Authority’s security apparatus railed against Israel and refused to comply with security forces’ repeated demands that he turn himself in.
“There are also members of my own people who are asking me to turn myself in, and I won’t do it until I get my son’s body [back],” Hazem wrote.
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.