Israel delivers residency revocation orders to family of attacker

Israeli forces raided the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood of occupied al-Quds (‘Jerusalem’) on Tuesday to deliver warrants notifying relatives of the driver responsible for a truck attack that their residency status would be punitively revoked, despite the family’s insistence they were not aware of plans for the attack.

Fadi al-Qunbar was shot dead by Israeli troopers and armed civilians on Saturday after he drove into a group of Israeli troopers in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied city, killing six troopers.

After reports emerged that Israel’s interior minister decided to revoke the residency status of 13 of al-Qunbar’s relatives, including his mother, Israeli police raided their home to deliver the revocation orders to some of the relatives, locking the family inside one room throughout the raid.

The family said that Israeli authorities summoned a group of the relatives to appear for questioning on Wednesday.