Palestinian families speak out over rise in killings, violence in West Bank

Palestinian families say they are filled with fear as humanitarian groups say threats by settlers in the West Bank have grown since Oct. 7.

Tawfic Abdel Jawwad went to spend a year with his family in the West Bank after he finished high school in New Orleans, where he was born and raised.

Tawfic, 17, was enjoying connecting to his roots and spending time with his cousins, the teen's father, Hafez Abduljabbar, told ABC News.

But now he says his son is a martyr.

Abduljabbar claims Tawfic was driving to a picnic last month with a friend when he was killed on a hillside road in what Abduljabbar called an ambush.

He claimed that eyewitnesses told him, "They shot him and executed him from a very short distance. He didn't see them. He didn't see them coming. He didn't see them hiding. They just came out of the trees and just saw shooting."