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At least six Palestinians murdered by Zionist forces in Nablus, Lion’s Den bomb workshop kaboomed

2022-10-26

[HODHODYEMENNEWS] At least five Paleostinians were killed and more than 20 others injured,

...lots of splinters and stubbed toes...

including at least 4 seriously, during the Israeli occupation army’s massive assault on the northern West Bank city of Nablus early this morning, Paleostine Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.

According to the Paleostinian Ministry of Health, the deaders were identified as Wadee El-Houh (31), Hamdi Sharaf (35), Ali Antar (26), Hamdi Qayyem (30) and Meshal Zahi Baghdadi (27).

“Who’s your baghdaddy?”

In Ramallah ,Qusai Tamimi,

Good lord — another member of the omnipresent Tamimi clan!

20, was killed by the occupation soldiers in Nabi Saleh village, north of the city, during festivities that erupted to protest the occupation army assault on Nablus.

The view from Israel:

IDF: Lion’s Den leader, 4 other gunmen killed, bomb factory destroyed in Nablus raid

[IsraelTimes] Top terror group commander Wadee al-Houh ’main target’ of overnight operation in West Bank; 6th fatality reported near Ramallah; PIJ vows Dire Revenge, Abbas aide pans ’war crime’

Israeli soldiers killed the leader of a Nablus-based terror group and destroyed an explosives workshop in the West Bank city, the military said early Tuesday, in an extensive raid that sparked intense festivities, leaving another four button men dead, and over 20 injured, according to Paleostinian health officials.

The Israel Defense Forces said 31-year-old Wadee al-Houh led the Lion’s Den terror group in Nablus and was responsible for numerous attacks. The group mourned him as a "leader" in a later statement.

Blasts and gunshots rang out for over an hour in Nablus after a large convoy of IDF vehicles entered the West Bank city before 1 a.m. Tuesday. Nablus has been the focus of weeks of operations targeting the Lion’s Den terror group, responsible for a string of attacks on military positions, settlements and other targets.

"A joint force of IDF soldiers, Shin Bet security service agents and anti-terror forces raided a hideaway in Nablus’s old city that was being used as a bomb workshop by central members of Lion’s Den," the IDF said in a statement released following the raid.

The IDF said troops had used shoulder-launched missiles against the building. "The bomb workshop was blown up by our forces," the military said.

The army said soldiers opened fire on a number of button men, citing Paleostinian reports of casualties. It said soldiers also returned fire when shot at during rioting in the city. "During the operation, dozens of Paleostinians burned tires and threw stones at troops," the army said.

The IDF said no soldiers were hurt in the overnight operation.

The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry reported that five Paleostinians were killed in Nablus and over 20 were maimed, several of them seriously. It also reported that a sixth person was killed in festivities with troops in Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah. The IDF said that man was shot by soldiers after hurling an bomb at them.

The ministry named the fatalities in Nablus as Hamdi Ramzy, 30, Ali Antar, 26, Hamdi Sharaf, 35, Wadee al-Houh, 31, and Mishaal Baghdadi, 27. al-Houh was a senior and founding member of Lion’s Den, according to Israeli officials and Paleostinian media reports. al-Houh was also responsible for manufacturing bombs and procuring weapons for members of the group, the IDF charged. The IDF said al-Houh was a "main target of the operation."

Separately, the military said Paleostinian button men shot up the Salem crossing in the northern West Bank early Tuesday. The checkpoint and adjacent base has been the target of numerous shooting attacks in recent weeks, leading Gantz to order it shut. The IDF said troops returned fire at the button men, and later arrested one of them at their home in the town of Rummanah.

Two other wanted Paleostinians were detained in overnight raids in other areas of the West Bank.

After the Nablus operation early Tuesday, the 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...
said in a statement that its "fighters were involved in ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful festivities" with Israeli forces in Nablus and threatened Israel with reprisals "against these crimes" there.

Paleostinian reports claimed that members of the PA’s security force were caught off guard by the raid and also shot up the Israeli troops, who shot back, resulting in injuries. The military, however, said it was unaware of any festivities with PA forces overnight.

The raid was the latest in the city to target Lion’s Den, a recently formed group made up of members of other terror organizations that has claimed a slew of attacks in the weeks since Israel killed senior al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade member Ibrahim al-Nabulsi in late August.

One Israeli soldier — Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch, 21, — 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.

On Saturday night, a Lion’s Den fighter, Tamer al-Kilani, was killed in the Old City of Nablus by an "explosion" attributed by the group and the Israeli press to a bomb remotely activated by the Israeli army. The military has not commented publicly on the claims. A defense official said Kilani, previously tossed in the calaboose
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
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 Tuesday statement blamed Lion’s Den for the foiled attack in Tel Aviv, which was thwarted when the would-be assailant was searched by police in Jaffa, who found guns and improvised explosives in his bag. It also said the group was responsible for planting a bomb at a gas station in the settlement of Kedumim, attempting to carry out an explosives attack on the settlement of Har Bracha, and throwing a fragmentation grenade at troops stationed in Nablus.

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.

The pressure has been exacerbated by increasingly frequent assaults by settlers in the area angry over the army’s inability to rein in the groups, who has taken out frustrations on Paleostinians in Huwara and other towns abutting settlements.

Posted by:Fred

#3
I love it when Zionist forces murder somebody. Gives me hope that there is still good in the world.

Posted by: Dron66046 2022-10-26 13:05

#2 ^ In Arabic, it would be something like Arin ul Asad. Asad meaning lion and Arin the lair or habitation.

Posted by: Dron66046 2022-10-26 13:01

#1 They are very new to the scene, a new generation of palestinians looking for the fight with israel. What's this new group's name in arabic?

Lion's Den is anglicized, that can't be what this group calls themselves in their native tongue.

Posted by: mossomo 2022-10-26 12:43

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