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2022-10-24 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Alleged assassination in Nablus may signal major Israeli policy change in West Bank
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[IsraelTimes] Death of Lion’s Den member bears hallmarks of attacks previously attributed to Israel, with officials similarly mum on reports
The early Sunday morning death of a senior member of a loosely organized Paleostinian terror group known as Lion’s Den in a kaboom in the West Bank city of Nablus would be an almost unprecedented action by Israel, if it was indeed behind the killing.
Tamer Kilani, a member of the upstart organization — which has claimed near-nightly attacks on Israeli troops and civilians during a crackdown on Nablus — was killed at approximately 1:30 a.m. when an bomb attached to a cycle of violence detonated in Nablus’s Old City, according to the group and Paleostinian media reports.
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In a statement, Lion’s Den claimed that Israeli forces planted the bomb, with footage showing the moment of the blast and another clip purporting to show an Israeli "collaborator" placing the booby-trapped cycle of violence in the area.
The Israel Defense Forces did not comment on the earth-shattering kaboom and Kilani’s death, but a defense official provided military news hounds with details about the slain man.
Kilani, previously nabbed
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
in Israel, was directly involved in sending a Paleostinian man to attempt to commit a "large-scale" attack in Tel Aviv last month, among several more shooting attacks in the Nablus area.
The killing, if Israel was behind it, would mark a dramatic change in Israeli policy with regard to its anti-terror operations in the West Bank.
In recent years, Israeli forces have shot and killed Paleostinians identified by the defense establishment as "ticking time bombs." Meaning, Lions of Islam who were allegedly en route to committing an attack or planning an imminent one.
Israeli officials say forces first attempt to arrest such Paleostinians, but those operations, often deep within Paleostinian cities, usually result in a fierce shootout between the sides, with the desperados dead.
The IDF has previously targeted Lion’s Den members with similar methods. In one such case, members of the group allegedly en route to committing an attack against an Israeli settlement near Nablus were ambushed by Israeli troops. One member of the group was killed in the ensuing shootout.
In the past, mostly during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s, Israel used attack helicopters in the West Bank against Paleostinian targets, but only in special circumstances and not as a matter of course.
Military chief Aviv Kohavi recently greenlit the use of armed drones in West Bank operations, if needed, though since the approval in early September, there has been no use of them yet.
The unusual bombing in Nablus was reminiscent of liquidations of Iranian scientists that have been attributed to Israel, such as the 2010 killing of Masoud Ali Mohammadi, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was reportedly killed when a remote-control bomb rigged to a cycle of violence was parked outside his home in Tehran.
Similar to liquidations attributed to Israel in Iran, Israeli officials are neither confirming nor denying involvement in the Nablus bombing.
The only similar alleged bombing liquidation in the West Bank goes back to 2002, when Raed al-Karmi, a Tanzim commander accused of several deadly attacks and planning more, was killed in a kaboom attributed to Israel near his home in the city of Tulkarem.
Tensions in the Nablus area have ratcheted up in recent weeks, with Israel’s military placing a cordon around the Paleostinian city to crack down on Lion’s Den.
Lion’s Den has grabbed credit for the majority of shooting attacks in the Nablus area since it was formed in August by members of various terror groups, including people previously affiliated with the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, among others.
One Israeli soldier was killed in an attack by the group and a second person was lightly injured in a separate assault on civilian vehicles. The other attacks have been ineffectual, but videos of the shootings uploaded to social media have helped it win it massive popularity on the Paleostinian street in a short period of time.
An anti-terror offensive launched earlier this year and focused on the northern West Bank has netted more than 2,000 arrests in near-nightly raids. It has also left over 120 Paleostinians dead, many of them — but not all — while carrying out attacks or during festivities with security forces. 
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