Five Druze from the northern village of Yarka are accused of kidnapping three residents of Jenin in revenge for the kidnapping of the body of Druze youth Tiran Fero by PA gunmen last November.

Fero had been seriously injured in an accident in the Jenin area and was evacuated by the Red Crescent to a hospital in the city, where he was pronounced dead. When it became known that he was an Israeli citizen, terrorists snatched his body in the hospital, in front of his father and brother.

Israeli authorities held negotiations with the terrorists until the youth's corpse was released.