Tawfic Abdel Jabbar
WHAT HAPPENED
Tawfic Hafeth Abdel Jabbar, a 17-year-old American citizen from Gretna, Louisiana, was fatally shot on January 19, 2024, while driving near his family's ancestral town of Al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya in the occupied West Bank. According to an Israeli police statement, an off-duty Israeli police officer, an Israeli soldier and an Israeli settler had opened fire toward the vehicle, which police linked to alleged stone-throwing; the sole passenger told the Associated Press the shooting was unprovoked. The U.S. government called for an urgent investigation, but as of mid-2025 Israeli authorities had released no findings and no one had been charged.
TESTIMONY
“My son was traveling from one piece of property to another … ambushed by a settler, retired police officer, a soldier.” — Hafeth Abdel Jabbar, Tawfic’s father
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