B'Tselem's account
Two Israeli security forces vehicles blocked the way of a taxi he was driving. About ten members of the Israeli security forces – including officers of Israel’s Special Police Unit (a.k.a. Counter Terrorism Unit) – alighted, surrounded the taxi and fired at it, with Barghouti inside. They then pulled him out of the taxi, apparently after handcuffing him, and removed him from the scene. The Israeli military informed his family that he was critically wounded during the incident and died of his wounds in hospital. Barghouti, who was a Hamas military branch operative, was suspected of involvement in the shooting at the hitchhiking station near the settlement of Ofra on 9 December 2018, which injured seven people, including the pregnant mother of neonate Amiad Yisrael Ish-Ran, who died three days later. Israel is holding his body.