Israeli police shoot dead Palestinian from Bedouin village in Negev

Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian from the Bedouin village of Al-Tarabin in the Negev early Sunday, local media reported. Al-Tarabin is an unrecognized Palestinian Bedouin village located in the Negev Desert in southern Israel. According to the daily Yedioth Ahronoth, a special police unit and soldiers from the “National Guard” raided the village to arrest Mohammed Hussein Tarabin for his alleged involvement in acts of vandalism against property in nearby Israeli settlements. The National Guard is a security force formed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and is viewed by the Israeli opposition as a militia under his direct authority. The newspaper quoted Tarabin’s family as saying that police shot their son “without cause.” “He is an ordinary […]