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2024-06-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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US announces sanctions on largely dormant West Bank terror group Lions’ Den
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[IsraelTimes] Group emerged in Nablus in late 2022 but has not taken responsibility for an attack since July 2023
The US State Department announced on Thursday sanctions against the Lions’ Den terror group
| …established by local members of various terror groups, including Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, led by one Ibrahim Nabulsi, a wanted Palestinian gunman who was killed almost immediately in an Israeli raid in Nablus. In our archives as Lions Den and Lion’s Den, because apostrophes matter.… |
that was established over two years ago in the northern West Bank, despite the group being largely inactive since last summer.
"The United States condemns any and all acts of violence committed in the West Bank, whoever the perpetrators, and we will use the tools at our disposal to expose and hold accountable those who threaten peace and stability there," US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement.
The Lions’ Den emerged in late 2022 in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank as violence surged in the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict, and carried out a number of terror attacks. It has been largely dormant over the past year, and has not grabbed credit for an attack since mid-2023.
In October 2022, Lions’ Den grabbed credit for several drive-by shootings in the Nablus area. Lions’ Den members shot up Israeli vehicles driving close to the settlement of Elon Moreh, injuring a taxi driver and damaging vehicles. In a separate attack, numerous shots were fired toward the West Bank settlement of Har Bracha, the State Department said.
In September 2022, Lions’ Den fighters injured and killed Paleostinian civilians during festivities between Paleostinian fighters and Paleostinian Authority Security Forces in Nablus, the US announcement added.
The announcement also cited April 2024 Paleostinian media reports of Lions’ Den fighters targeting Israeli forces with small arms at an Israeli checkpoint in Nablus. However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
these reports were never confirmed, the group never grabbed credit for that attack and it could well have been perpetrated by 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...
fighters.
The US has also recently sanctioned 13 Israeli settlers accused of committing violence against Paleostinians in the West Bank, as well as two outposts and four groups.
Tensions beyond the Green Line have been high since Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s October 7 onslaught, which saw bully boyz infiltrate Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,150 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,750 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 520 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. According to the IDF, most have been killed during violent mostly peaceful festivities with troops. 
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