Trying to hold the fragile reprieve in between Israel and the Islamic Jihadplease refer Jewish state does not stop its forays into the occupied territories in this new season of lightning strikes and arrests at the top of the various Palestinian organizations. Today in a joint action by Shin Betthe internal secret services, police and army was killed in it Nablusin west bankthe leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Ibrahim al-Nabulsileads the group close to the party al-Fatah the President of the Palestinian Authority, Abu Mazen. The Israeli action also sparked protests in other Palestinian cities, such as Hebron, where a 17-year-old boy was fatally shot by soldiers during clashes between army units and groups of protesters who took to the streets. Other tensions have occurred a Ramallah and Bethlehem.
Al-Nabulsi lost his life in the firefight that erupted during the Blitz, killing two other people: these are, according to the reconstruction provided by the Jerusalem Post Hussein Jamal Taha and Islam Sabbuhthe latter, according to local media, framed in the military wing of the Islamic Jihad to jein. A murder that could trigger new unrest in the area and in Gaza, as also confirmed by the PNA State Department statements that defined Israel’s action “A heinous crime”: “This crime – according to the ministry – is a new episode in the war waged against our people, against our national cause and against our rights. We believe Israel fully responsible of this new crime,” the ministry reiterated, warning that it would be risked “Disastrous Consequence” for any attempt to restart the peace process.
Al-Nabulsi had been wanted for some time and had fled Tel Aviv several times before attempted arrest. This latest joint operation sparked a firefight in the Palestinian city’s kasbah shoot and bomb, in which about forty people are said to have been injured. “During a joint operation by Shin Bet, police and army units in the Nablus Kasbah, the terrorist Ibrahim al-Nabulsi was killed – explained a military spokesman – he was responsible for a series of armed attacks on the army in this zone. In an attempt to A gun battle ensued to arrest him, in which another terrorist was also killed.” According to the spokesman, “massive amounts of bombs and other ordnance were found” in the house where the wanted man was found. Despite his young age al-Nablusi was very popular in Nablus, especially among the young people who followed him on the internet. In the morning he still had time to deliver one last message: “Friends, I am about to die. I love my mother. I beg you: Don’t lower your arms. Promise. I’m under siege, I’m about to die”.
In Gaza, however, the situation remains so crystallized for the time being that Israel has decided to do so reopen the Erez border crossing for workers from the Palestinian enclave. Pass closed when the operation started breaking Dawn with which Tel Aviv bombed the Gaza Strip with the aim of hitting and causing the leaders of Islamic Jihad there 41 victims including 6 children.
Palestinian organizations are also being attacked beyond the borders of Israel and Palestine. Near the capital Lebanon, Beiruthe was actually killed with a sniper shot to the head said Assusbetter known as Abu Nader, a member of al-Fatah in Lebanon. To kill him, inside the refugee camp of Ain al-Hilwe, near Sidon, 40 kilometers south of the capital, a detachment of unidentified armed men. Abu Nader is not just any figure: for years he was the liaison officer between al-Fatah and the Lebanese army, which under the 1969 Cairo Accords is barred from entering the Palestinian refugee camps, whose “security” is entrusted almost exclusively to the Palestinian militias.
The first member of the Tel Aviv Executive to comment on recent Israeli operations in Palestine was the interim PM, Jair Lapid, according to which the killing of Ibrahim al-Nabulsi was “a further step in our uncompromising fight against terrorism”. On the other side of the wall, President Abu Mazen’s spokesman, Nabil Abu Rdenehstated that “the Israeli government is not interested in achieving calm and stability, and instead is shedding Palestinian blood, using it to gain it Income in domestic politics. This aggression if it persists it will light up the region and will cause devastation whose serious consequences no one can bear”.