How was the Jenin Brigade able to uncover the agent responsible for the assassination of its members?

Martyrs of the assassination carried out by the occupation forces against fighters from the Jenin Brigade (communication sites)

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After the funeral of three martyrs who were assassinated by the Israeli occupation with a missile that targeted their car, near Ibn Sina Hospital in the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, members of the Jenin Brigade and some residents in the streets of Jenin camp announced that they had found an informant with the occupation forces, who provided extensive information about the movements of the three martyrs. He helped monitor the occupation drones, locate them, and bomb them.

Media pages of the Jenin Brigade, affiliated with the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in the Jenin camp, had published the news of finding the person who dealt with the occupation and facilitated the assassination of the three young men. They were members of the battalion, and one of them was Hamada Barakat, the most wanted person on the Israeli assassination list, and an accused. Carrying out several shooting operations, including the “Harmish” settlement operation near the city of Tulkarm in late May of last year, in which an Israeli officer was killed and another was wounded.

The greatest danger

Jenin Battalion fighters believe that one of the most prominent reasons for reaching wanted persons is the services provided by agents to the occupation intelligence, and that this method is the most dangerous for the mujahideen, because the danger of employment lies in the agent’s presence among the people, his knowledge of the details of their lives, his closeness to them, and his knowledge of the streets, roads, and alleys, because he is one of them. He grew up with them.

Inside a small room in one of the camp’s neighborhoods, a group from the Monitoring and Tracking Unit, affiliated with the Jenin Battalion, was able to check the surveillance cameras located in the assassination area. “S,” one of the battalion’s fighters, says, “In the monitoring unit, we were able to go back to the time before the car passed the assassination area.” We tracked where it was standing at the time the martyrs were riding in it, and there we noticed a strange movement of this person near the car, so we tried to find out his movements after he left the location of the car, and we noticed that he claimed to be injured and that he had entered the hospital to hide and remove suspicions from him.”

The fighter adds, "The workers are the real danger to us as an occupied Palestinian people. The agents are the most dangerous weapon in the hands of the occupation. During the previous years, the agents were able to reach resistors that the various Israeli army agencies were unable to reach, and even here in the camp, unfortunately. The recent assassinations, which increased in frequency, were all Because of the information that agents provide to the occupation, we are losing our fighters because of this group that is harmful to our people.”

Previous scenes of one of the leaders of the "Jenin Brigade", the martyr Muhammad Hawashin, who was martyred this evening as a result of his wounds sustained as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing a vehicle in #Jenin yesterday #Gaza_War #Video pic.twitter.com/hUTjiwa0by

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Employment recognition

The battalion fighters caught the suspect and interrogated him extensively. The surprise was when he confessed to providing Israeli intelligence with information about the martyr Hamada Barakat and his companions, and his participation in more than one assassination operation against resistance fighters in Jenin, the most recent of which was the assassination of the martyrs Bassel and Muhammad Ghazawi, which was carried out by an Israeli special force in one of the rooms. Ibn Sina Hospital.

Fighter “R” confirms that “the tracking process was very precise and secret as well, and that the execution decision that was carried out on the agent came after he confessed to identifying the martyrs’ car as the Israeli reconnaissance plane to facilitate tracking it, and that he contributed to providing information for previous assassinations.”

After the confession, it was announced throughout the city of Jenin and its camp that the agent who had caused the assassination of Hamada Barakat and his two companions had been captured, and the death sentence was executed against him by firing squad, in the middle of a large crowd of camp residents, while news pages circulated an audio clip of the agent’s brother, declaring his innocence and the innocence of... His complete family.

His brother said in the audio clip, “What Karim did represents him alone, and does not represent me or the rest of my family. As of this moment, I declare that Karim is not my brother, I do not know him at all, and he does not belong to us, and that what the battalion’s youth did by executing him is correct.”

#watched| An angry march roams the streets of Jenin after the occupation’s assassination of three resistance fighters by bombing their vehicle pic.twitter.com/5CL132u2jK

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Popular welcome

At the moment of execution, the informant’s brother participated in shooting him, confirming his family’s innocence of him, while the people of the camp praised the family’s position, and considered that this guilt befell the informant himself and did not include his family, and that the shame of those who cooperated with the occupation was not general, but only concerned those who dealt with him personally. .

The mother of one of the martyrs who was bombed by a drone in the Jenin camp had come to the place of the intelligence officer’s execution last night, and stood in front of his body and said, “May God not forgive you, God will not forgive you as you wasted my son and the other young men.”

Jamal Khamis - one of the camp residents who attended the execution at night - believes that “people’s view of the agents’ family is important. Their families should not be held responsible for their sins and what they committed. Many families have fighters and resistance fighters, and an agent was also found in them, so it is not possible to judge all family members because of their crimes.” The action of one of them.”

He added, "Employment is one of the greatest and most dangerous sins, and perhaps there is no fault or guilt after it, as it is a major fall into the mire of villainy, and whoever allows himself to be a tool for the enemy to kill our brothers and resistors will have lost his afterlife first and then lost everyone's respect for him, even if he is not exposed or exposed." He was able to escape execution at the hands of the resistance fighters. We colloquially call him a fallen man, meaning he can never live a normal, respectable life.”

The people of the camp consider that the arguments for shunning the path of employment for the occupation, presented by everyone who followed this path to justify his cooperation from Israeli intelligence, are just arguments, and that the lives of the martyrs are much more precious than the arguments for shunning through recorded or video calls, or other methods used by the Shin Bet. "To reach Palestinian youth, and force them to cooperate with them.

The camp residents recall the story of the martyr Ziad Hamran, from the village of Deir Abu Daif in Jenin Governorate, whom Shin Bet officers tried to lure into cooperating with them and recruiting him to serve them, but he was able to deceive them and arranged to meet them near the city of Bethlehem, then opened fire on them and wounded them directly before he was martyred.

Source: Al Jazeera