Al-Mukhtar Al-Nono played a prominent societal and reform role, and refused to cooperate with the occupation (Al-Jazeera)

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Palestinian institutions and figures accused the occupation of deliberately assassinating reformist Ismail al-Nunu, against the backdrop of his refusal to cooperate with the occupation’s plan aimed at creating a “tribal framework,” so that he would be entrusted with the task of distributing humanitarian aid, and to be the nucleus of an alternative leadership to the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas.”

Israeli aircraft bombed Al-Nono’s house on Wednesday, March 20, leading to his martyrdom, along with his wife, two of his children, and two of his grandchildren. The assassination of Al-Nono was accompanied by the targeting of activists from the “Popular Committees,” which were formed to secure and distribute humanitarian aid, in cooperation with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. And the employment of refugees "UNRWA".

Within the framework of the policy practiced by Israel to starve the residents of the Gaza Strip, as it prevents the distribution of humanitarian aid in an organized manner to reach all residents, and shoots citizens who come to receive what they need from it, Israel tried to form a framework for distributing aid, based on some Palestinian tribes, but it failed after refusal. Representatives of families cooperate with the occupation.

Later, an agreement was reached between UNRWA and Israel to distribute aid, and to protect the trucks carrying it by “popular committees”, which rely on volunteers and heads of families, but the Israeli occupation did not adhere to the agreement, and targeted many of those in charge of the popular committees, which led to the martyrdom of Many of them were injured.

UNRWA media advisor Adnan Abu Hasna said in press statements, commenting on the targeting of activists in securing and distributing aid, that Israel “did not provide an explanation for its withdrawal from the arrangements for providing aid to northern Gaza.”

Al-Nono's house was destroyed and burned by the occupation forces (Al-Jazeera)

Repair man

Ismail Al-Nono was 58 years old, and he was a businessman who owned the company "Alfa Electronics", which specialized in telecommunications services, surveillance systems, and control devices.

In addition to his commercial work, Al-Nono played a prominent role in social, charitable and reform work, as he headed the reform committee for the “Salah al-Din” area, east of Gaza City, in addition to being the mukhtar of the “Nono” family.

During the past years, Al-Nono has been sponsoring many reform ceremonies among Palestinian families in Gaza City. He has also been participating in seminars organized by governmental and private institutions on the importance of “strengthening the societal fabric and promoting civil peace.”

During the war, Al-Nono's property was destroyed by the occupation forces, as he had previously published on his Facebook account on February 6, a post in which he said that the occupation forces burned his house and then destroyed it several days later, and also destroyed his company's headquarters.

Reasons for the assassination

The Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, confirms that the assassination of Al-Nono is related to his position on cooperation with the occupation, and he explained in a special statement to Al Jazeera Net, “Mukhtar Ismail Al-Nono and his family were assassinated against the backdrop of his refusal to cooperate with the occupation on the issue of aid, as an alternative to the administrative reality in the Gaza Strip.” ".

Al-Thawabta expressed “the strongest expressions of denunciation and condemnation of Israeli terrorism for the assassination of Mukhtar Al-Nono,” and stated that he worked under the umbrella of the popular committees that were active in providing aid to the hungry displaced people in the governorates of the Gaza Strip.

He stressed that the popular committees do not work under the framework of the Hamas movement or its government in Gaza, but rather according to an agreement concluded between international organizations and the occupation, “and despite that they were targeted. The occupation does not want any successes in penetrating the policy of starvation and ending famine, so it is committing these massacres and crimes against The chiefs of the families and tribes responsible for providing aid, because he is trying to kill all the elements of steadfastness for our Palestinian people.”

Refusing to cooperate with the occupation

Head of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory, Rami Abdo, reveals that Al-Nono “categorically rejected” offers from the Israeli occupation authorities to cooperate with them - along with other notables - in distributing aid and “managing the affairs of the Gaza Strip” to be an alternative to the Hamas movement.

Abdo told Al Jazeera Net, "According to the information I received, Al-Nono was during the last stage part of the communication operations carried out by international institutions in coordination with the Israeli army, with the aim of arranging and securing the entry of aid, in preparation for the families to play a fundamental role in governing Gaza."

He added, "Several meetings were held in which Al-Nono participated. He, along with other mukhtars, rejected the Israeli proposals and rejected any violation of the authority of the law in the Gaza Strip."

Later, Al-Nono and other family notables received calls from the Israeli army’s coordinator for affairs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, asking them to cooperate and trying to persuade them to cooperate with the Israeli occupation, according to Abdo, but Al-Nono categorically rejected this matter and said, “This will not happen, and there will be no He cooperated with Israel as an occupying force,” which prompted the Israeli coordinator to use threatening phrases to the effect that Al-Nono “will lose,” and that Palestinian society “will lose if they do not cooperate.”

Abdo believes that the success of passing aid last week with the cooperation of the popular committees and notables “did not please the Israeli occupation, which realized that the mukhtars play a national role, which contradicts the occupation’s plans.”

Abdo concluded his speech by saying, "I believe that the above prompted Israel to kill Al-Nono, in the context of an operation to perpetuate a state of chaos. Israel, after failing to provide alternatives to the rule of the Hamas movement in Gaza, wants to create a permanent state of chaos, with the aim of emptying the northern Gaza Strip of its population." .

Source: Al Jazeera