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Social media activists reacted to the news of the martyrdom of the “elegant fighter” after journalists announced his martyrdom in a clash with the occupation army.

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This Palestinian resistance figure caught the attention while he was fighting wearing his long black coat at the end of last January, and hunting down an Israeli tank in the city of Khan Yunis. The pioneers of communication called him the elegant resistance fighter, and they celebrated him.

Activists and journalists circulated pictures that they believed showed the fighter’s elegant face. They said that his name was “Hamza Hisham Amer,” and his nickname was Abu Hisham, and that he was the commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades ambushes in the Al-Amal neighborhood, west of the city of Khan Yunis.

After the news of the elegant fighter’s martyrdom spread, social media pioneers re-published his photos and shared some caricatures of him.

The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), did not announce the identity of the elegant fighter nor the news of his martyrdom because it does not announce the names of its martyrs during military operations for security reasons.

Glorification of heroism

The episode dated 3/11/2024 of the “Shabakat” program reviewed the activists’ most prominent comments about the news of the martyrdom of the elegant fighter, most of which agreed on glorifying his heroism, while some of them pointed to the importance of raising generations on the path of Islam.

Activist Ahed Madi tweeted, praising the martyr, referring to his heroism and saying, “Hamza Hisham Amer, that your face that resembles Palestine, full of anger, revolution, and love, reveals your face so that the image of Gaza, soaked in the blood of the martyrs, becomes clear.”

Tweeter Hamid Al-Ali agreed with Madi in glorifying the heroism of the martyr, citing in his tweet verses of poetry: “If death is inevitable... then I prefer it to a martyr’s battle... I live with it happily in paradise... and I remain in its pastures for eternity.”

As for the owner of the account, Mishmisha, she stressed the necessity of preserving the confidentiality of the details of the martyrs and resistance fighters, and she tweeted, “I still appeal not to disclose those of the resistance who were martyred, especially those who became famous for something special,” and she justified her appeal as “to preserve the morale of the people of Gaza and to preserve the lives of those close to them.”

For his part, tweeter Abu Al-Walid pointed out that the resistance is keen to raise generations according to the approach of Islam and said, “In Hamas, children are not bequeathed money or worldly prestige that is fleeting, but rather the honor of a Muslim and an enduring testimony. This is the legacy of the righteous following the path of the best of creation, the Messenger of God.”

According to reports, the father of the elegant fighter is the leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hisham Hosni Amer, and he studied under Yahya Al-Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip.

Amer was one of the first generation of Al-Qassam, and he was martyred during the first Palestinian Intifada in 1992, in an armed attack on the Khan Yunis police station where an occupation army force was stationed.