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Interviews with Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

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In December, both Yousef and Maisara refused to evacuate the al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, which was under siege by Israeli forces, although they encouraged their families to flee south. By June, al-Shuja’iyya was undergoing its second Israeli invasion, and Yousef (not his real name) and his friend were staying on al-Mansoura Street. They were the only ones there. Both tried their best to hide from the Israeli drones that blanketed the sky.

Yousef and Maisara understood the danger they were in, not only because everything that moved in the area was a target for Israeli drones but also because Maisara was a resistance fighter with the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. Yousef isn’t a member of the Qassam Brigades and has not participated in the fighting directly. But he is still a member of the Hamas movement and wants to help out in any way he can. He is also Maisara’s best friend.

In mid-July, Maisara was exposed to one of the Israeli drones, which immediately targeted and killed him. From that point on, Yousef would continue to move around al-Shuja’iyya. He considered himself a kind of caretaker of the abandoned neighborhood. If he found someone dead in the street, he would retrieve the bodies and make sure they got a proper burial. If possible, he would take them to their families, or inform their families of their deaths. He also patrolled the streets to protect the area from looting.

But beyond that, what he really wanted was to be recruited by the Qassam Brigades to fight the invaders of his neighborhood head-on. He stayed behind in al-Shuja’iyya solely for this purpose. At the start of the war, he and his family had been displaced several times, running from death from one place to another within Gaza City. He belongs to a family of 7, and when they all chose to evacuate to the south in December he decided to stay behind with some friends, many of them also in Hamas or supporters of the movement. Some, like his friend Maisara, were also resistance fighters.

Yousef’s story is representative of countless others in al-Shuja’iyya and across Gaza who have joined the resistance against Israel’s genocidal attack, or are supporting it in any way they can. This story was written based on interviews with Yousef’s family members and friends, as well as written testimonies and other materials that Yousef shared with his loved ones.

The battles of al-Shuja’iyya

The Israeli army launched its first invasion of al-Shuja’iyya on December 4 and engaged in a protracted battle with the Qassam Brigades for over three weeks of fighting. The Israeli army suffered heavy losses, and the Qassam Brigades broadcast images of the fighting, capturing footage of burning Israeli tanks and military vehicles.

Yousef and a few of his friends didn’t engage in the fight, but they tasked themselves with helping out the fighters by bringing them food or providing human reconnaissance and informing them of the army’s movements. They weren’t given any orders but did it of their own accord. All of them had grown up in the same mosque circles, an important component of Hamas’s social base.

Yousef used to notice that many of the fighters would gather in front of a restaurant in the neighborhood, and from there they would go out on missions to engage the Israeli forces. They then returned to the same spot afterward before dispersing.

“I saw fighters coming back from battles. I was inspired by the courage they had. They fought fearlessly, like true heroes,” Yousef explained in testimony shared with Mondoweiss. “They were losing everything to defend their homeland and their people. Most of them died, but some are still fighting, and they haven’t retreated.”

In mid-December, Yousef watched a group of five Qassam fighters returning from a mission. An Israeli drone had followed them, and within seconds, three missiles were fired on the group, killing them all. Yousef was only 200 meters away. He and a group of his friends later gathered their remains and gave them a burial.

After the five fighters had been killed, it was reported that the army targeted their homes with missiles, leveling them to the ground.

“Whenever I got the chance to meet up with them or spend time with them when they weren’t out fighting, I knew what I wanted to do next,” Yousef said. “I want to fight like them.”

No one from the Qassam Brigades had ever approached him about recruitment, but he was content to wait and make it known through his social circles that he was available and willing whenever the need arose.

“But maybe it’s not the time for me,” he said.

On December 26, the army pulled out of al-Shuja’iyya, announcing that it had dismantled Hamas’s military infrastructure in the neighborhood. But six months later, the army was back in al-Shuja’iyya again, fighting a second battle. Hamas had regrouped its forces and reconstituted its fighting capacities all across the northern half of Gaza. This time, the fighting was even more fierce than the first round, as Qassam fighters launched RPGs, planted IEDs, and set up ambushes for Israeli forces from Jabalia to Shuja’iyya.

Yousef had remained in al-Shuja’iyya this entire time, moving about and trying to be of use in the battle — if not directly, then at least he could provide as much material support as possible.

In one of his speeches during the war, Hamas’s military spokesperson, Abu Obaida, said that the resistance had recruited thousands of people to replenish their thinned ranks.

“Thousands more are still waiting to join,” Abu Obaida said. Yousef still held out hope that he would be one of them. He prefers it to constantly being on the run from death.

“The occupation has killed everything we know,” Yousef says. “It only gives us more reason to fight.”

After two weeks of fighting during the second Shuja’iyya invasion, the Israeli army retreated again. It had declared victory, but left behind destroyed tanks at the entrance of the neighborhood. Videos released on social media showed as much in the invasion’s aftermath.

A completely destroyed Israeli occupation vehicle was left in Al-Shuja'iyya neighborhood following a fierce confrontation with the resistance. pic.twitter.com/0jwggJPv8i

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 8, 2024

Yousef said that the Israeli army had destroyed all of his neighborhood. “We want life and safety, and they want to exterminate us. They want to kill every Palestinian.”

“Israel thinks that it is terrorizing us with its crimes, but we no longer want anything except revenge for the blood of our people,” Yousef says. “We want revenge for the people Israel killed and let their flesh be eaten by dogs in front of us, and we could not save them. They shot anyone on sight. This is a criminal army, and we must confront it. Everyone on our land must fight it until we eradicate it.”

Building a resistance society

Even though Yousef is not a fighter or a member of al-Qassam, he has received military training, as have many young men in Gaza. Hamas consciously chose to build an infrastructure of resistance that included not only weapons and tunnels but also people with the requisite skills and capabilities.

Yousef and his friends received training from a young age. He was always present at mosques and participated in Hamas events. Many of these events included summer camps that provided youth with basic training. He participated in several camps over the years, starting when he was 14 years old.

Hamas called these summer camps the “Vanguards of Liberation,” which it has held on an annual basis ever since it began ruling Gaza in 2007 up until the outbreak of the current war. The camps accepted people from all age groups, anywhere from 15 to 60 years of age, but were mostly attended by young men who joined training throughout the summer and then graduated. In every area and neighborhood in Gaza, many of these young men were known for their membership in the resistance factions, and around them were dozens of young men who wished to have positions like them in the organizations.

According to statements put out by the Qassam Brigades in previous years, the Vanguards of Liberation camps have trained over 25,000 people at a time.

“The goal behind these camps is to prepare the generation of liberation spiritually, mentally, physically, and behaviorally,” the Qassam Brigades said in a 2015 statement. The training included military and scouting skills, shooting with live ammunition, assembling and disassembling assault rifles, Civil Defense basics, and first aid courses.

Hamas was not the only movement to host such camps. Other resistance factions like the Palestinian Islamic Jihad also held trainings for their own social base, which Hamas encouraged as part of the project of allowing resistance organizations to operate in Gaza unhindered. This has allowed them to practice military actions with complete freedom for years and has spread a general awareness among youth on how to defend themselves. None of this has rivaled the universal conscription of the Israeli army, but resistance organizations in Gaza attempted to close the gap over the years to make up for the asymmetry of power.

This is why Yousef feels he has been groomed for this moment his entire life. “The camps prepared us for such moments, to be ready to face this criminal army that killed our families. Now we are ready, and we are waiting to engage in the fight.”

Yousef already treats himself as a fighter, and he acts accordingly. He has an AK-47, but he doesn’t carry it with him; he keeps it safe in a specific hiding place. He and Maisara used to share it before he was killed. Yousef continues to try to make himself available to his neighbors and childhood friends who are part of the Qassam Brigades, and he already considers himself one of them. He has decided that he will share in their fate.

“I’ve lived among fighters during this war, and I see myself as one of them,” he explains. “And I never once heard one of them complain. Even though we barely eat and we barely sleep. On some days, we only eat a few dates in our pockets. We don’t complain. We’ve all dedicated our lives to defending our people. We lived among them, grew up with them, and now we’re going to fight for them.”

“All the sadness and the destruction motivates me, and all those I love are in Paradise. They’re martyrs who fell before me, and they’re waiting for me to join them. The occupation is creating generations that want to be free at any cost, no matter how much blood it sheds.”

Yousef is not alone in wanting to fight the army, but he is in a unique situation because he is a son of Hamas, and so it remains plausible that he might eventually be conscripted. “When I talk to anyone in al-Shuja’iyya, they all want the same thing. They want to leave an impact, instead of dying helplessly and getting cut up into pieces or being eaten by dogs in the street.”

But not all of those who want to fight will ever be selected, especially those who are not affiliated with Hamas. “They want to die as true heroes, but most of them can’t. They won’t be recruited,” Yousef explains. The Qassam Brigades never recruits anyone outside of the Hamas movement.

“Everywhere in the streets of this city, there are stories about real heroes. We will tell their stories when we win and break the occupation,” Yousef says.

Tareq S. Hajjaj
Tareq S. Hajjaj is the Mondoweiss Gaza Correspondent, and a member of the Palestinian Writers Union. He studied English Literature at Al-Azhar University in Gaza. He started his career in journalism in 2015 working as a news writer and translator for the local newspaper, Donia al-Watan. He has reported for Elbadi, Middle East Eye, and Al Monitor. Follow him on Twitter at @Tareqshajjaj.

From: Mondoweiss

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9 August marks the second anniversary of the martyrdom of the Lion of Nablus, the ghost of the mountain of fire, Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, and his fellow fighters, martyrs and prisoners of the Lions’ Den.

Two years after his martyrdom, Nabulsi and his comrades remain symbols of courage, resistance, pride and combativeness for an entire generation of Palestinians but also for all supporters of the Palestinian resistance throughout the world.

Nablus: From the Mountain of Fire to the Lions’ Den

Since the period of the British Mandate, Nablus has played a central role in Palestinian political life, and therefore in the resistance of the Palestinian people.

It was in Nablus that the great strike of 1936 was declared. By 1936, Palestine had been under the British colonial mandate for 20 years. In 1917, the Balfour Declaration promised that the British Empire would support the creation of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Mandatory Palestine. In a few years, aided by a British colonial policy of land grabbing and confiscation, expulsion and a discriminatory and racist tax policy, the Zionist colonial project developed rapidly in Palestine. On the side of the indigenous Palestinian people, who suffered the full brunt of this colonial policy, anger was growing.

On 19 April 1936, in a family-run soap factory in Nablus, the newly founded Arab National Committee declared a major general strike. It called on Palestinians to withhold tax payments and boycott Zionist settler products in protest against British colonialism and increasing Zionist immigration. Within days, national committees were formed in all major cities and some large villages to strengthen the strike. Under pressure from the rank and file, which seized upon the movement with force, the five largest Palestinian political parties created the Arab Higher Committee and took charge of the strike.

The strike grew and blossomed throughout Palestine, and in other countries in the region support movements were organized. A real popular movement was being built and in the countryside peasants took up arms to fight the colonial troops, with Syrian sheikh Izzedine al-Qassam playing a leading role in mobilizing the peasantry for armed struggle. A few months later, in October 1936, faced with diplomatic pressure, the Arab Higher Committee decided to end the strike.

This general strike is a central event in the history of Palestinian resistance. It will serve as an impetus for another major event in the history of Palestine: the Great Arab Revolt of 1936-1939. The fellahin – the peasants – who played a central role in the 1936 strike and constituted at that time the heart of the Palestinian armed resistance, targeted Zionist and British interests. In response, more than 25,000 British soldiers were sent to Palestine to crush the rebellion. The colonial empire also provided weapons to the Zionist militias that were formed and served as auxiliaries to the colonial army. After a bloody repression, the Great Revolt gradually stopped, when the British Empire promised to significantly reduce Zionist immigration. It is estimated that in three years, 5,000 Palestinians were killed, 15,000 to 20,000 injured and 5,600 imprisoned, or a total of 10% of the population.

During the years following the Nakba and the establishment of the Zionist entity on the land of Palestine, Nablus remained a stronghold of the resistance. In 1967, with the defeat of the Arab armies and the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the old city became a stronghold of the resistance and hosted cells of organized fighters. Significant armed actions were carried out and a number of them had a strong impact on the Zionist army. Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of these fighters. A member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, she led a network of urban resistance fighters in the city of Nablus at the time. Shadia considered education, knowledge and science as weapons in the struggle for liberation, and had participated in cutting-edge operations that inflicted significant losses on the colonial army. She fell a martyr in 1968, while preparing a bomb at her home, in a district of the old city. In tribute, Leila Khaled later took up her name as a nom de guerre during her external resistance operations. Several schools bear her name in the West Bank and Gaza — and both Zionist forces and European funders have repeatedly attempted to force Palestinians to remove her name, like those of other martyrs of the liberation movement.

From the beginning of the 1980s, a new generation of resistance fighters decided to rebuild Palestinian organizations and factions in the city and surrounding camps. This revitalization of resistance in the city and its outskirts would allow young people to physically and concretely oppose the Zionist army. And a few years before the first intifada, in Nablus and in the Balata camp, stones and Molotov cocktails were already raining down on the colonial soldiers. In 1987, when the uprising started in Jabalia camp in Gaza and spread throughout Palestine to break out in the West Bank, the city and its outskirts became a stronghold of clashes.

During the 2nd Intifada, the city was once again a center of resistance. Among its most ardent defenders, names recur like Nayef Abu Sharkh, Jaafar Al-Masri and Fadi Al-Bahti, and the two fighters of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, Yamen Faraj (Abu Nasreen) and his comrade Amjad Mlaitat. Pursued and hunted for years, they carried out a significant number of operations, before being assassinated on 6 July 2004, after a four-hour confrontation against Zionist soldiers.

Historically, the city of Nablus has been a stronghold of Palestinian resistance. The history of martyred fighters and prisoners is passed down from generation to generation, can be read on the walls, and through the discussions of parents or elders. Each Palestinian city has its history of resistance, and this history constitutes the foundations of the future of the revolution, whether it is the story of the battle of the Jenin camp during the second intifada or that of a prisoner fighter from a small village. Experiences complement each other, experiences respond to each other, the failures and successes of the elders are evaluated and liberation draws closer.

IBRAHIM NABULSI: THE LION OF NABLUS

Ibrahim Al Nabulsi is a child of Nablus. He was born there in 2003, during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. At that time, it was a city ravaged by raids and attacks by the Zionist occupation army. It painfully counts its inhabitants who fell as martyrs to defend the city, and notes the material damage left by tanks, bombs, bulldozers and other colonial soldiers.

At the age of 15, wanted by the Zionist state, he was arrested with two childhood friends, Muhammad Dakhil and Adham Mabrouka, by the Palestinian Authority. In detention, they suffered physical violence that would deeply mark them and develop their commitment to the resistance. Upon their release, they joined the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the city of Nablus. The group would join a larger coalition, the Nablus Brigade, a unified brigade that brought together fighters from various factions present in the city and its outskirts.

Very quickly, the group became a priority for the occupying forces. Operation “Break the Wave” was launched on the city at the beginning of 2022 to eliminate the brigade. A campaign of raids, murders and bloody executions then began. Because these resistance fighters, sons, fathers, cousins ​​and children of Nablus benefit from unwavering support from the population, a popular support that makes the colonial army tremble.

On February 8, 2022, the occupation forces, infiltrating the city of Nablus, ambushed a car carrying Ashraf Mubasalat, Mohammad Dakhil and Adham Mabrouka. A hail of several dozen bullets fell on the group of friends who died instantly. These three young men were resistance fighters, members of the Nablus Brigades. But above all, they were Ibrahim’s childhood friends, who were with him during his incarceration. After the murder of his three companions, Ibrahim learned that he too was actively sought by the occupation forces and that he had just narrowly escaped assassination.

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After the murder of his three friends, Ibrahim became one of the main targets of the colonial army, which then launched a relentless hunt for the Lion of Nablus and his comrades. Despite everything, as usual and as he would do until his martyrdom, it was not uncommon to see him walking around the old city, taking the time to greet people and talk to them.

On the day of the funeral procession of his three friends, while he was actively sought, he broke through the crowd to salute his brothers in arms one last time. This public appearance, like a challenge to the colonial war machine and its secret services, further forged his legend.

At dawn on 24 July 2022, residents of the Al Yasmina neighborhood were awakened by intense gunfire. The colonial army had launched an operation against a house in the city that was said to be sheltering resistance fighters. For more than 5 hours, Zionist soldiers riddled the house with bullets and explosives. The resistance fighters held their own, aided by their network of tunnels running throughout the city. Despite everything, the occupying forces had the upper hand, and two prominent fighters from Nablus, considered the founders of the future “Lions’ Den,” fell as martyrs: Muhammad al-Azizi and Abdul Rahman Subuh. Ibrahim, who was present at the scene, managed to escape once again. His public appearance during the funeral procession had the effect of a thunderclap. Surrounded by his people, rifle in hand, he pierced the crowd to carry the shrouds of his friends.

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On Tuesday, 9 August 2022, in the early morning, the Israeli army launched a new raid on Nablus. Clashes broke out with residents and several dozen of them were injured. At the same time, the occupation forces surrounded a block of houses in the old city. Inside were Ibrahim Nabulsi and a comrade, Islam Subuh. The two fighters refused to surrender, and chose to resist. The colonial army unleashed itself on the house, riddling it with bullets and finally destroying it with a missile launcher. The walls exploded under the violence of the shock. Despite their courageous resistance, the two brothers in arms fell as martyrs under the colonial bullets.

On the same day, 16-year-old Hussein Jamal Taha was shot in the heart by Israeli soldiers during clashes that broke out in the city.

“I love you so much. If I am martyred, guys: I love my mother. Take care of the homeland after I am gone, and my last wish for you, on your honor: do not drop the rifle – on your honor. I am surrounded and I am going to my martyrdom. Pray for me.”

These are Ibrahim’s last words, from a voice recording sent while he was surrounded by occupation soldiers. These words, “don’t drop the gun,” will resonate strongly with all Palestinian youth, in historic Palestine and in the diaspora.

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The city was filled with people, with a dense and electric crowd accompanying the remains of the martyrs during the funeral procession. The mother of his comrade who fell martyr before him, Muhammad Al Dakhil, washes his face while addressing his last words to him. In the hubbub, his body is carried for a time off the stretcher. Ibrahim’s mother, splits the crowd and carries the shroud with her son’s companions. She pierces the crowd that clusters around the bodies of the resistance fighters, who sacrificed what was most dear to them for their collective liberation. Then Um Eyad, the mother of the Lion, seizes the weapon that her son was carrying.

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Ibrahim Nabulsi was long considered a fighter of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Following his martyrdom, the Saraya Al Quds Brigades published a statement and a video from him, announcing that Ibrahim was also one of their leaders. He also had bonds of comradeship and alliance with the Izzedine Al-Qassam Brigades. In truth, Ibrahim Al Nabulsi and his companions were fighters of the Resistance. The creation of the Nablus Brigade, an informal alliance across political lines, is the most concrete expression of this. Previous generations have struggled to overcome intra-Palestinian divisions, and the project of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades during the second intifada in Jenin, to see the different brigades of the resistance unified under a collective command, was eventually realized in Gaza under the impetus, leadership and direction of Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Hamas and the Al-Qassam Brigades. For these young people from the Jenin, Lions’ Den, Tulkarem or Balata brigades, the question of factionalism does not arise. This post-Oslo generation has only known betrayal by the Palestinian Authority, continued colonization, the loss of momentum of the traditional parties, and has been directly confronted with colonial savagery. For them, the only way to defeat the Zionist forces, to be able to defend the camps and liberate their land is to unite the rifles without factional considerations.

Shortly after his death, his comrades announced the creation of a new group in Nablus: “Lions’ Den”. The culmination of this reflection on the unification of the brigades under a common banner, it is a group bringing together young people from different political families, united in the struggle for national liberation. Inside we find leaders and fighters belonging to resistance parties and their brigades, and others who are not affiliated and only active in the Den, all without distinctive signs. The only visible logo is that of the Lions’ Den. A white circle in which two rifles stand guard over Al Quds, placed on a black crescent on which the name of the group is written.

The Lions’ Den: Prelude to the Flood

The success of the Lions’ Den lies in an effective formula: an ability to carry out a significant number of operations against Zionist interests and the occupying forces, impactful communication, and above all a limitless sacrifice for national liberation. The number of martyrs of the group is incalculable, all the leaders are either martyrs or in prison (those of the Zionist state but also those of the “Palestinian” authority). The tribute posters follow one another on the walls, and each fallen fighter leaves an immense scar in this landscape of white bricks.

The repression of the Zionist entity was brutal and merciless, it cut off the head of the brigade very quickly, in an ultra-violent manner, seeking to send a message: The person who chooses the path of arms in Nablus will end up riddled with bullets or dynamited. And the significant human toll paid by the Lions’ Den has impacted its military capabilities. The group is less visible and less active. But it has given impetus to other groups which, in turn, hold the occupation forces in check, as in Nour Shams, Jenin, Balata, etc.

The Lions’ Den played a key role in the revival of armed resistance on this scale in the West Bank. The lions of Nablus showed the way forward to Palestinian youth seeking liberation. There was a before and an after. And it impacted the entire Palestinian society, including Gaza, where tributes to the fallen fighters and congratulations for the group’s military actions were sent. After October 7, the Gaza resistance called on the whole of Palestine to stand by its side. The Lions’ Den was the first organization to respond with a statement encouraging all available forces to join the battle.

In short, while the Palestinian armed resistance was in a state of decline, denied even by components of the Palestinian “civil society,” a group of young people from the “mountain of fire” awakened a volcano. And recalled that the path of armed resistance was the path that would allow liberation.

Behind the Lions: The Popular Cradle

In early September 2022, less than a month after the martyrdom of Ibrahim, Islam and Hussein, the Lions’ Den organized its first meeting, for the 40 days of the martyrdom of the founders  Muhammad al-Azizi and Abdul Rahman Subuh . For the first time, the fighters of the Den went out in formation and presented themselves to their city. Dressed in black, a white headband with the image of the group, a red cloth tied around the barrel of the rifle to signify that these weapons are only intended to confront the settler, and that no bullet will be wasted by firing it into the sky.

Old Nablus welcomed them in the best possible way, the sons who grew up in its centre. They who know every nook and cranny of the old city, every underground passage, every back shop, every stone scarred by bullet holes, every leaf rocked by the morning breeze. Each time they appear, the streets are crowded, the whole city wants to greet the fighters, the children admire those they imitate during their games, the parents feel the pride of seeing their child be part of these proud resistance fighters.

This is the true strength of the Lions’ Den: it finds its source in every family, in every street. The city is the cradle of the fighters. More than once the population has massively supported the resistance fighters in a difficult situation (as we saw recently in Tulkarem where the population snatched Abu Shujaa, leader of the Tulkarem Brigades, from the clutches of the PA security services) by taking to the streets to face the bullets of the Zionist army.

The group’s flags flutter in the alleys and squares, the faces of the martyrs are enthroned on the walls or cover the walls of shops and street food trailers. Commemorations are regularly organized to keep alive the memory of the fallen fighters so that their struggle finds continuity in previous generations.

The group’s communication has also played a huge role in its success among the population. The official Telegram channel has reached more than 250,000 subscribers. Not to mention all the unofficial channels created to share content about martyrs and fighters.

The simple fact that in hiding, and hunted by the Zionist intelligence services, Ibrahim Nabulsi could walk around the old city and take advantage of that connection with the street, shows to what extent the city and its inhabitants were a protective veil that lovingly closed over the resistance fighters.

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Faced with the ongoing genocide, and faced with the full alliance of imperialist powers with the Zionist regime, seeking to grant it total impunity, we must stand with strength and dedication alongside the fighters of the Palestinian Resistance. We can, through our mobilization in the imperial core, open a breach that can significantly weaken the Zionist genocidal regime and strengthen the Resistance! Through economic, sporting, and cultural boycott, by fighting for the release of prisoners of the resistance incarcerated in our countries like Georges Abdallah imprisoned in France for 40 years and eligible for release since 1999, the Holy Land Five detained in the USA for 16 years, or our comrades from Palestine Action! Through our mobilization, let us create an international popular cradle for the Palestinian Resistance and support the Palestinian resisters and fighters!

Glory to the martyrs, long life to the fighters, freedom to the prisoners!
Glory to the Palestinian Resistance!

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Seven occupation soldiers were injured in a Resistance operation near the settlement of “Homesh” in the northern occupied West Bank, Zionist news website Ynet reported.

Resistance fighters opened fire on a group of soldiers and targeted them with improvised explosive devices, injuring at least seven, who were transferred to the “Beilinson” hospital in 48′ occupied territories via an evacuation helicopter.

Later, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades – Jenin Brigade announced its responsibility for the well-executed attack.

According to reports, Palestinian Resistance fighters opened fire on a military site near “Homesh” luring a force that was investigating the incident to Silat al-Dahr town, which is located on the road that connects Jenin to “Homesh”. When the force arrived at the previously designated area, an explosive device was detonated by the Resistance fighters, causing casualties among occupation troops.

Zionist media outlets highlighted the “pre-planned” operation as “extremely dangerous”, pointing to the fact that those who carried out the operation remain at large.

Palestinian sources also revealed that Palestinian Resistance fighters attacked two military points and an illegal settlement in the West Bank just after the operation was conducted in “Homesh”.

Hamas, PFLP commend the heroic operation

The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas put out a statement commending the “heroic Homesh operation,” affirming that the event is a “natural response to ‘Israeli’ massacres in Gaza and the West Bank,” as well as Zionist threats against al-Aqsa Mosque.

“We call on all free people and heroes of our nation to carry on this path of vengeance in response to the occupation’s crimes,” the movement stated.

On its part, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) confirmed that the Palestinian Resistance has planned “more operations that will surprise the enemy.”

Multiple operations follow “Homesh” ambush

Resistance fighters opened fire toward the settler road near the village of Zawata northwest of Nablus in the West Bank, targeted a military checkpoint in Surra to the southwest of Nablus, engaged in an armed confrontation with occupation soldiers at the Salem checkpoint, west of Jenin, opened fire on the Huwara checkpoint to the south of Nablus, attacked the Jabal Jarzin military site, and attacked the Beit Furik military checkpoint to the east of Nablus, according to local sources.

Palestinian sources confirmed that Resistance fighters attacked all military checkpoints surrounding the city of Nablus in less than an hour.

In the south of Qalqilya, near the “separation wall”, which separates the occupied West Bank and 48′ occupied territories, Resistance fighters attacked the military point near the town of al-Birayn.

Near Tulkarm, shots were fired toward a military site near the “Avnei Hefetz” illegal settlement from a speeding car.

Local sources confirmed 10 operations were carried out against occupation military sites and checkpoints across the West Bank in two hours.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced in a statement that its fighters and brigades must mobilize in all governorates of the West Bank. The group maintains a large presence in the territory, including multiple brigades in the governorate of Tulkarm alone.

On the other hand, settlers attacked the homes of Palestinians in Burqah to the east of Ramallah.

These operations carried out by Palestinian Resistance in the West Bank come amid growing Zionist concerns about a highly possible escalation during the month of Ramadan, which will see multiple operations and confrontations occur in occupied territories, as the war on the Gaza Strip persists and restrictions on Muslim worshippers and Palestinians in the West Bank continue. Earlier, the Zionist Minister of Security, Yoav Gallant, warned of the eruption of the West Bank during the blessed month, amidst calls to participate in the “Ramadan Flood” in solidarity with the Gaza Strip.

Abu Obeida: No compromise on core demands

The ongoing Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood “establishes a new phase not only in Gaza and Palestine but on a global level,” as it promotes the fact that “justice is only secured through force,” the military spokesperson for Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades Abu Obeida stated in a crucial broadcast address on Friday.

Sixth months into Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Abu Obeida brought clarity to several key issues, including ongoing mediated talks between the Palestinian Resistance and the entity, as well as the operational situation for the Palestinian Resistance and the condition of Zionist prisoners in the Gaza Strip.

“This savage war against our people enters its sixth month, with the criminal enemy persisting in perpetrating a true Nazi holocaust against our people – involving the killings, starvation, intensification of oppression, destruction, and disdain for all international laws and feeble systems that stand powerless against the occupying entity, which is stripped of any human values,” Abu Obeida stated.

Abu Obeida’s speech highlighted the futility of diplomacy and legal pathways through international law or the decisions of the United Nations Security Council in achieving a ceasefire and the rights of the Palestinian people.

Instead, the spokesperson pushed for continued confrontations and expanded mobilization in the month of Ramadan, in the West Bank, occupied ’48 territories, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and other Islamic and Arab nations to end the genocide against the Palestinian people.

The frail international community fails to stop Zionist plots

“The international community and its frail laws are designed to protect injustice, oppression, and aggression [conducted] by the tyranny of ruthless power, spearheaded by the American administration. Our people and Resistance understood this equation early on. Hence, our people’s Resistance and ongoing revolution culminated in the October 7 epic, responding to the continuous aggression [that has spanned for] decades, reaching its peak in attempts to Judaize [al-Aqsa Mosque] and defeat and provoke the sentiments of all Muslims,” Abu Obeida underlined.

“Zionist arrogance escalated with the rise of the most extremist and Nazi-like government in the entity. Before October 7, it was [preparing] for what [is being praticed] today in Gaza, the West Bank, and al-Quds, grounded in an alleged Torah legacy openly calling for the burning, killing, and destruction of other nations,” the spokesperson explained.

“Strengthened by Zionist settlers’ gangs, they began their odious religious war against our lands, people, and sanctities,” he said.

“[The international community] adheres to the law of the jungle, where the so-called Security Council convenes… obstructing any, even formal, attempt to support the oppressed and deter the aggressors,” the spokesperson underscored.

Resistance will not stop until the rights of Palestinians are retrieved by force

“Faced with this reality and ongoing aggression, we, in al-Qassam Brigades and the Palestinian Resistance … persist, understanding that an enemy that only comprehends the language of strength will not be subdued by statements, conferences, condemnations, or even international resolutions,” Abu Obeida stressed.

“We have been fighting for decades, and now, on the hundred fifty-fourth day of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, we continue to [produce] immense losses inflicted upon the desperate enemy, its criminal army, and mercenaries, both in terms of officers, soldiers, and their [armored] vehicles,” the spokesperson of al-Qassam Brigades said.

He pledged that the Palestinian Resistance will continue to confront the aggression until it ends, saying that “Israel” will not gain any security “until it grants our people their rights and ends its occupation of land and sacred sites.”

Ramadan: A month of resistance

“May the approaching month of Ramadan be a month of obedience, jihad, and victories,” Abu Obeida said as he began to address Muslims around the world.

“As Muslims worldwide prepare to welcome Ramadan, we have offered a sacrifice to Allah – a cascade of pure blood and pure souls. We welcome it with the peak of Islamic zeal, jihad, steadfastness, and combat during a time when men are honored [for their actions during the Holy month],” Abu Obeida said.

The military spokesperson then addressed Muslims who had not lived up to the occasion and supported Gaza and the Palestinian people, citing a poem sent by Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak to Fudayl ibn ‘Iyaad in the year 797.

O ye who worships in the vicinity of the Two Holy Masjids!

If you but see us, you will realize that you are only jesting in worship.

He who brings wetness to his cheek with his tears should know that our necks are being wet by our blood.

“In the face of a billion-strong nation, the enemy disregards the sanctity of their al-Aqsa Mosque. Despite claiming otherwise, they (Israeli authorities) plan to tighten the grip on its people, expel them, and impose restrictions on worship, persisting in their declared religious war. They show no regard for the sanctity of innocent lives, which are as sacred to Allah as the Kaaba itself,” Abu Obeida said in his resounding message to Muslims around the world.

He then called “upon all the sons of our people in the West Bank, al-Quds, and the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948 to mobilize and march toward al-Aqsa Mosque, stand firm there, and not allow the occupation to impose its [policies in the holy site].”

“We call on the masses of our nation everywhere to declare mobilization to confront [the Israeli occupation] in every field – be it in combat and confrontation or in protest and demonstration,” he stressed.

We will not compromise on fundamental demands in negotiations

“While we have positively engaged with mediators, our top and foremost priority for accomplishing a prisoner exchange deal is a complete commitment to the cessation of aggression against our people. This includes the full withdrawal of the enemy, the return of our displaced people, and the reconstruction of [Gaza],” Abu Obeida explained.

“We do not compromise on these fundamental and humanitarian issues,” he stressed.

“Any proposals that do not include these human principles are of no use or concern to our people and Resistance. Nothing takes precedence over addressing the wounds of our people, who are facing genocide due to their insistence on their rights and defense of their land and sanctities,” Abu Obeida said about mediated negotiations between the Resistance and Israeli authorities.

Starvation of Gazans affects Zionist captives alike

“[Israelis] have gone beyond the brutality of the Nazis… [imposing] intentional starvation, where the world witnesses the killing of fathers seeking to provide for their children and the starvation and death of children in the most heinous war crimes,” Abu Obeida said.

“We affirm that this famine has cast its shadows over all segments of our people in Gaza, including [Zionist captives] who experience the same levels of hunger and deprivation as our people. They suffer from a lack of food and medicine, and some of the enemy’s captives are experiencing malnutrition, dehydration, and emaciation. Disease now threatens the lives of some of them due to the unavailability of proper medication and food. Additionally, they are exposed to bombings and killings in incidents we have repeatedly announced,” Abu Obeida said.

“If the families of these prisoners are concerned about their lives, let them know that their government and war council are playing with the lives of their children. They insist on receiving them in coffins. The ball is in their court to save those who can be saved from them,” he underlined.

To conclude, Abu Obeida extended his greetings to the steadfast Palestinian people “and the fighters of our heroic nation in all areas.” In particular, he mentioned those who have been martyred “on the path to al-Quds, in Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq.”

source: Al Mayadeen, Resistance News Network

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