Nablus

- With the text of a "military" statement bearing its own logo, Al-Quds Brigades (the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine) announced the launch of its new battalion in the city of Nablus, the largest city in the northern West Bank, under the name of the "Nablus-Al-Quds Brigades" battalion, and attached its statement to the adoption of a resistance activity carried out by the battalion. During the storming of the Israeli occupation and settlers last night in the Tomb of Joseph, east of the city.

Similar to the Jenin Brigade, which appeared to the public after the escape of 6 prisoners (5 of them from Islamic Jihad and one of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades affiliated with Fatah) from Gilboa Prison in early September 2021 (prisoners of the Freedom Tunnel), the Nablus Brigade came.

Before Nablus, there was a media talk saying that the “Tulkarem Brigade” was in the process of preparation, while the “Bethlehem Brigade” adopted a double military action against the “Rachel’s Dome” and the “Tunnel Barrier 300” with bursts of bullets and a peaceful withdrawal, as if the Jihad movement and its armed wing were organizing Its work and resistance against the occupation in the West Bank, which is what armed men from other factions do, albeit in an unorganized manner.

Returning to the text of the statement of the "Nablus-Al-Quds Brigade" battalion, the organized work appears more;

It details the preparation and response to the occupation army through "4 of the Saraya Mujahideen who ambushed on Tuesday evening the occupation forces and settlers who stormed Joseph's Tomb."


openly and secretly

The statement specified the mechanism of the ambush in a way that it is not surprising about the confidence in which they speak, and stated that two of the resistance fighters climbed to the roofs of one of the buildings near the tomb after making holes in the roof walls.

While two others were stationed among the trees on the opposite side, hours before the storming, and waited for the occupation soldiers to be reassured.

The battalion's gunmen continued their activity, and some of them went out wearing the "Al-Quds Brigades" and carrying their rifles, during the funeral of the child martyr Ghaith Yamin in Nablus this afternoon.

In more than one video military parade organized by the Al-Quds Brigades in Jenin, gunmen from other factions appeared alongside it, threatening Israel and its soldiers, and said that they would "see the unexpected if they storm Jenin camp." .

This public exodus in Nablus, which was devoid of only a few supporters of the Islamic Jihad movement historically, suggests a joint action between it and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of the Fatah movement, also known as the “Nablus Brigade”;

His features began to appear after the assassination of the three martyrs in the city last February.

Rather, estimates from politicians and analysts went to the fact that these gunmen (the three martyrs), who were visiting the city of Jenin a few days ago, were planning this joint action, which Israel also accused them of, and said that they opened fire towards its military points in different parts of the city.


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And all of this, in the opinion of Sheikh Bassam al-Saadi - a leader in the Islamic Jihad movement in the West Bank - will establish an "intifada and an escalating confrontation" that the Israeli occupation and its settlers have ignited against the Palestinian people and their sanctities, and then the people will defend themselves.

Al-Saadi explained - in an exclusive statement to Al-Jazeera Net - that the pressures that the Palestinians are exposed to at the hands of the occupation "contribute to redefining the unity of the situation despite our distance from these militants in terms of organization and funding."

Al-Saadi, who was repeatedly arrested by the occupation, continued by saying that everything that happens on the ground paves the way for a comprehensive reaction of the resistance and is not limited to a particular faction or form or even a political party, in reference to the Palestinian Authority's move in rejection of the Judaization of Jerusalem and the annexation of the Jordan Valley.

By comparing what is happening now with what was 20 years ago, when the Al-Aqsa Intifada broke out, which quickly turned into an armed action;

Al-Saadi says, "Today is stronger morally and on the ground," stressing that everyone is scrambling to protect Jerusalem from any danger, and this is embodied by the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic "axis of resistance."


Therefore, al-Saadi expects that the work of the resistance will withdraw locally to the rest of the Palestinian cities, and he says that expectations indicate the extension of these battalions to the rest of the West Bank cities to include all the factions, and perhaps even a case of “coordination, harmony and joint action between these factions,” especially if they agree on a single approach. It leads to a scene of victory, as the Jenin refugee camp experienced 20 years ago, during its invasion.

Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh, the former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Nablus, agrees with what the leader al-Saadi said that the escalation of the occupation and its fierce attack against the Palestinians, and the political adoption of this by the Israeli governments, is enough to make this generation fall under any resistance faction.

Despite his belief that the cells on the ground are "individual", Abu Ghazaleh assured - to Al Jazeera Net - that the repeated attacks, especially by settlers, "will create a state of coordination between the different factions."


Israel's fear

The occupation fears such armed cells regardless of their names within the "Jenin Brigade or Nablus", or their involvement under any armed faction, especially since the repercussions of the second intifada and what is happening in Gaza helped to keep these names present in the minds of Palestinian youth, says Yasser. Manna Palestinian researcher on Israeli affairs for Al Jazeera Net.

Moreover, these names are not intended in essence, but were found due to the absence of a real factional presence, which is why it united in the field and dropped the experience of the "joint operations room" in Gaza on the ground in the West Bank, and may even agree with the political positions related to the resistance on the ground.

And this unity and the withdrawal of the resistance from the rest of the West Bank cities, even if they are individual, is something that Israel fears. Any stalker - in Manna’s opinion - may create a nucleus for any armed action and attract young people in particular, and that makes Israel deal with what is happening in Jenin with a kind of focused and rapid operations away from assassinations That increase the motivation of young people to engage in resistance and armament.

Although he did not expect a large-scale uprising at the present time, Manna confirmed that events are piling up and will reach the point of the explosion, and that "any armed action will be the beginning of an upcoming confrontation."