New Lion’s Den militia loses founder in operation that killed five Palestinians
Nablus is in mourning. Thousands of people say goodbye to the five Palestinians who died in the operation launched last night by Israel’s special forces in the traveling part of this city in the heart of the West Bank. The Israelis attacked the headquarters of the new Palestinian Lion’s Den militia and killed their leader, 31-year-old Wadee Al Hawah. The clashes in the old part lasted more than three hours and according to the Al Jazeera station, Israel used an armed drone to end the life of Al Hawah, who died early this morning in a hospital in this city that the Israeli occupier blocked for two weeks. Another 19-year-old Palestinian was killed during a protest staged in Nabi Saleh in response to the Nablus operation.
Israeli intelligence sources told Yedioth Ahronot newspaper that “this operation is a message to anyone who thinks terrorists can find safe hiding places.” The escalation of violence in the occupied territories, with more than 100 Palestinians and 17 Israelis killed so far this year, is putting the Jewish state in a “high alert” with less than a week left for new elections, according to the same report. sources. 2022 is the bloodiest year in the West Bank since 2015.
Two months ago, the Lion’s Den group appeared and since then they have become a nightmare for Israel’s security forces and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). In one of their coups, they managed to kill an Israeli soldier, but in these weeks the Israelis have been killing off the key members one after the other until they reached the founder. They present themselves as a militia of young people who want to overcome the differences between the Palestinian factions to put the armed struggle against the occupation first. That message has filtered through to the new generations born after the Second Intifada and tired of seeing the Israeli colonies not stop growing, despite the policy of nonviolence and cooperation in security matters instituted by Mahmoud Abbas’s PA. His Telegram channel has more than 200,000 subscribers and his messages reach every Palestinian home.
From Ramallah, Abbas made “urgent contacts to stop this aggression against our people”, in the words of his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh. The problem is, it’s been a long time since anyone has listened to a president whose security forces have joined the hunt for the lion’s den and imprisoned Musab Shtayyeh, close to Hamas, in Jericho, accusing them of bringing the money with which weapons to buy.
Source: La Verdad
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