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Israel used to wage "treacherous wars" on the Gaza Strip, the spark of which - each time - is a sudden assassination and physical liquidation of a prominent and influential figure in the Palestinian resistance, which it has always described as a "precious hunting", and does not hesitate to liquidate it, and it is aware that this It will push the situation towards a "bloody war".

The most prominent Israeli assassination crimes during the past ten years constituted a "war gate";

The assassination of a prominent commander in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Ahmed al-Jabari in 2012, followed by the assassination of a prominent commander in Saraya al-Quds, the military arm of Islamic Jihad, Baha Abu al-Atta, in 2019, leading to the recent assassination of Caliph "Abu al-Atta". In the leadership of Al-Quds Brigades, the martyr Tayseer Al-Jabari.

The martyr Ahmed Al-Jabari, the second man in the Al-Qassam Brigades, was assassinated by Israel at the beginning of its aggression on Gaza in 2012 (Al-Jazeera)

Shale Stones Battle

On November 14, 2012, Israel assassinated Ahmad al-Jabari, the prominent leader of the al-Qassam Brigades and its "second man" after its general commander Muhammad al-Deif.

The Israeli security and military circles described al-Jabari as "Hamas Chief of Staff", for his remarkable role in developing the movement's military performance and arsenal.

Even before his assassination, al-Jabari, born in Gaza in 1960, was one of the most wanted persons on Israel's "liquidation and assassination lists", and incitement against him increased for his central role in managing the file of the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, and his direct supervision of the prisoner exchange deal in 2011.

The assassination of al-Jabari was a "big shock" by targeting him unexpectedly and without introduction.

Thus, Israel violated the truce that was in force in Gaza at the time, when it bombed his car with several missiles, killing him and his companions on the spot.

Because of the loss of a leader of his stature, Hamas did not hesitate to respond forcefully to the assassination crime. An 8-day war erupted, which the movement called the "Battle of the Shale Stones", while Israel called it the "pillar of clouds."

And resulted in the death of 175 Palestinians.

While Israel did not officially announce the number of its dead, its media announced at the time that 6 people were killed and 240 wounded.

Al-Jabari’s assassination came in implementation of a decision taken by the “mini-ministerial committee for Israeli security affairs.” According to a spokesman for the occupation army, his assassination was carried out in coordination with the Israeli Security Agency and based on information he described as “accurate intelligence.”

Since 2004, Al-Jabari has survived several kidnappings or assassinations.

According to information published by the Al-Qassam Brigades on its official website, his eldest son "Mohammed" and a number of his relatives were martyred during unsuccessful Israeli attempts to assassinate him.

Al-Jabari began his resistance activity early in the ranks of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), and was arrested for about 13 years in the prisons of the occupation, during which he turned to activity in the ranks of Hamas before his liberation in 1995, and after a few years he became one of the 3 leaders in the "Military Council" of the Al-Qassam Brigades. and left clear fingerprints that made the battalions resemble a "regular army".


The Battle of the Dawn Cry

Seven years have passed since the assassination of al-Jabari, before Israel resumed "breaking the rules of engagement" and breaching the truce in Gaza, by assassinating Baha Abu al-Atta, commander of the northern region of Saraya al-Quds, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza.

On the morning of November 12, 2019, Gaza woke up to the sound of an Israeli drone explosion, which targeted Abu al-Atta in his residential apartment in the Shejaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, killing him and his wife.

Only half an hour passed since the assassination, before the Islamic Jihad decided to respond in an operation that lasted for a few days, which it called the "Battle of the Dawn Cry," during which hundreds of missiles were launched at Israeli sites and towns.

While Israel kept its losses as a result of the resistance's missiles, its air raids resulted in the death of 34 Palestinians, and the wounding of more than 100 others, including activists in Al-Quds Brigades, and large numbers of civilians.

Israel had accused Abu al-Atta, who was born in Gaza in 1977, of being directly responsible for launching attacks against Israeli targets.

According to the Islamic Jihad Movement, Abu al-Atta joined its ranks in 1990, and went through organizational work until he became the commander of the northern region in its military arm in Gaza, and he personally supervised the military participation in confronting the occupation in its wars and repeated rounds of escalation in the Strip.

Israel failed to assassinate Abu al-Atta on 3 previous occasions, the last of which was during the third war it launched on Gaza in 2014.

They were one soul.


Bahaa Abu Al-Atta, Tayseer Al-Jabari.# No_red_lines pic.twitter.com/MPO56y7yUD

— Al Umami (@oumami_qouds) August 5, 2022

Spark a new war

Following the assassination of Abu al-Atta, his assistant, Tayseer al-Jabari, succeeded him in the leadership of the "Northern Brigade" in the Al-Quds Brigades, until yesterday afternoon, Israel managed to assassinate him in a similar operation, as it is estimated that a drone targeted him inside an apartment in the "Burj Palestine" in the Rimal neighborhood. In Gaza City, he was martyred immediately, accompanied by one of his companions.

The assassination this time came in light of Egypt's efforts to prevent the situation from deteriorating following Israel's arrest of a prominent leader of the Islamic Jihad movement in Jenin in the West Bank, Bassam al-Saadi.

Taysir al-Jabari was born in Gaza in 1972. He is from the family of the martyr Ahmad al-Jabari, who is known to be involved in resistance activities, especially among Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

A number of its members were martyred in direct assassinations and in Israeli wars and escalation rounds in Gaza.

Taysir al-Jabari survived several Israeli attempts to assassinate him, most notably in 2012 and 2014.

Apparently, the assassination of Taysir al-Jabari - in an operation in which the occupation marched, during which "a great misinformation" was described by Israeli military analysts - sparked a long fire that Gaza will receive in the coming days.

The funeral of the leader of the Al-Quds Brigades, Tayseer Al-Jabari, after he was assassinated by an Israeli bombing of his apartment west of Gaza City (Reuters)

"The least useful tool"

Under the title "Assassinations...the least feasible and most widely used tool", a paper by the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies (Madar) documents the history of the liquidations of Palestinian leaders and activists.

The paper says that Israel has used the word "assassination" to describe the process of physical liquidation targeting Palestinian leaders and fighters and Arabs, accusing them of activity against it.

And this name remained in circulation until the year 2000;

Whereas, Eliakim Rubinstein, a judge in the Israeli Supreme Court, presented the name “the least unfair” against Israel, according to his description, which is “local frustration.” This (neutral) definition became adopted by Yuval Diskin, deputy head of the Shin Bet at the time, who is the architect of this method in the face of The second intifada, in particular, was adopted by the media and Israeli official departments.

The paper chronicles the beginning of the policy of assassinations in which a specific person with a specific identity is targeted, chosen for the purpose of liquidating him by an official decision. This policy began in 1972 when the Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir decided to prosecute and assassinate the perpetrators of the Munich operation that targeted Israeli athletes who were participating in the Olympic Games in Germany.

After that, assassinations and liquidations continued, and they affected writers such as Ghassan Kanafani, security leaders such as Abu Ali Hassan Salama, general secretaries such as Fathi Shikaki and Abbas Mousavi, intellectuals and political leaders.

Leading to the assassination of the Secretary-General of the Popular Front, Abu Ali Mustafa, by the bombing of his office in Ramallah in 2001, and the assassination of the founder of Hamas’s military wing, Salah Shehadeh, by an aerial bombardment of his house in July 2002, and the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in 2004, then the assassination of prominent leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, And before them and after them hundreds of Palestinian leaders and activists.


Backfire

And “Quds Press” news agency reports that during 71 years, the Israelis have carried out more than 2,700 assassinations (an average of 38 operations annually) inside and outside the occupied Palestinian territories, according to the Israeli writer and expert Ronen Bergman, in an interview with the “Time of Israel” website. On January 30, 2018. In most cases, the Israeli occupation does not officially acknowledge its responsibility for assassinations outside the borders.

The Israeli military correspondent, Alon Ben-David, asserts that the policy of assassinations "does not lead to an end to the phenomenon of Palestinian resistance leaders and activists" but to the replacement of others with them, and that it may lead to counterproductive results and "feed and expand the cycle of blood and violence," as he put it.