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fetal- When zero hour struck, the Israeli occupation forces did not care about the results of their military operation, so their aircraft bombed a car passing among crowds of citizens and several vehicles on the main street in the middle of the city. fetalNear what is known locally as “Battikha Roundabout,” two young men were killed inside their vehicle, which was charred by the intensity of the shelling and the fire that completely consumed it.
At nine o'clock last night, Saturday, Israel was able to assassinate the two young men, Raafat Mahmoud Dawasi and Ahmed Walid Abu Ara, the leaders of…Al-Qassam Brigades The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation), after many failed attempts to arrest or eliminate them.
The bodies of the two martyrs were not initially identified, and citizens and local media outlets circulated several names, but the occupation forces and their intelligence agencies knew what they had done and who they had assassinated, and later announced that they had assassinated prominent Hamas resistance fighters responsible for planning and executing resistance operations against the occupation.
Mujahideen until the last breath
In its statement mourning the two martyrs, a copy of which was received by Al Jazeera Net, the Al Qassam Brigades confirmed that they were “Qassam fighters who played a major jihadist role,” and said that they were responsible for planning and executing several “qualitative” operations, most notably the bombing of the Nimr military vehicle during the occupation army’s storming of the city of Jenin on June 27, which led to the death of an Israeli soldier and the injury of others.
According to the movement’s statement and a video clip it published, they carried out the triple ambush by detonating three explosive devices near the border wall with the occupied interior in 1948 in the village of Matla, northeast of the city of Jenin, on July 23, 2024. According to the resistance’s video, an Israeli officer and two soldiers were injured, in addition to the killing of the Israeli soldier, Jonathan Deutsch, near the village of Ein al-Bayda in the northern Jordan Valley on August 11.
The Brigades said in the statement that “the blood of its martyred leaders will only be a sign of the coming torrent of blood for the occupier through more qualitative operations that will be carried out by the Qassam fighters from all the governorates of the occupied West Bank, God willing.”
For its part, the occupation army said – in a statement carried by the media – that the assassination of the “saboteurs”, as it described them, was carried out through a joint activity between the army and the General Security Service. It stated that the martyr Ahmed Abu Ara was involved in other resistance operations and played a pivotal role in manufacturing explosive devices, while the martyr Raafat Dawasi was described as an official in Hamas' military infrastructure in the Jenin area.
The funeral procession for the two martyrs started at 10:00 a.m. Sunday in front of Jenin Governmental Hospital, and toured the streets of the city, which declared a general mourning. The mourners carried the bodies of the martyrs on their shoulders and chanted in praise of the martyrs, amid calls for revenge for them, while the resistance fighters fired bullets into the air. Afterwards, each martyr was transported to his hometown, where thousands of mourners came out in both villages.
unanimously resisted
In the town of Aqaba, near the city of Tubas, north of West BankThe martyr Ahmed Walid Abu Ara (28 years old) was born to a family known for its religiosity, among 10 children. His father works as a driver of a large transport truck, and his mother is a housewife.
He was known for his piety, his love for the mosque, and his constant attendance at it. He received his primary and secondary education in the schools of Aqaba, but did not complete his university education, as he joined the labor market and learned the profession of house painting, and excelled in working in it in his town and within Green Line.
Abu Ara is described – according to what his relative Zaid Abu Ara told Al Jazeera Net – as a young man “of high morals and beloved among his peers and the people of his town, with whom he has good relations. He has enjoyed the consensus of everyone, especially since he was known for transcending factionalism in his struggle and resistance.”
Abu Ara stood out in the first operation he carried out against the occupation in the area of Road 60 in the northern Jordan Valley in July 2023, during which an Israeli settler was injured. “This operation surprised many, especially the people of his village and those close to him, as no one knew or expected that,” says the spokesman, a relative of the martyr.
After that, the occupation began to pursue him, as it first arrested his father, mother and brother to pressure him to surrender himself, amid threats to liquidate him, but he refused to surrender himself.
In September 2023, Abu Ara, who has been married for about 6 years and has two daughters, survived an attempted arrest and assassination targeting him after the occupation forces surrounded the house he was in for several hours in his village of Aqaba, where his brother Muhammad was arrested and a citizen named Abdul Rahim Ghanem was martyred in front of his farm. Despite moving to the city of Jenin and its camp, he continued to target the occupation with its operations between the far east in the Jordan Valley and at the border north of Jenin.
The occupation had never arrested the martyr Abu Ara, but three of his brothers were arrested, while he and some of his brothers were arrested by the Palestinian Authority security forces.
His brother, Mohammed (45 years old), has been detained by the occupation since last year. He was previously detained several times, the most severe of which was in 2001, when he was shot by the occupation and spent about 6 years in continuous administrative detention.
Abu Ara was affected by the martyrdom of his village son and relative, Sheikh Mustafa Abu Ara (62 years old), inside the occupation prisons a few weeks ago. He and other resistance fighters from the Jenin Battalion participated in the mourning house that was set up for him in the village.
The merchant resistor
The martyr Raafat Mahmoud Dawasi (28 years old) was born in the village of Silat al-Harithiya, west of the city of Jenin, to a religious family consisting of two parents and five siblings, of whom he was the middle child.
Raafat carried the name of his paternal grandfather, and was active since his early childhood working with his father in their shops, as his family works in the home appliances sector on a large scale in the Jenin Governorate.
In the schools of his village, Silat Al-Harithiya, “Sheikh Raafat” – as they call him – received his primary and secondary education. Despite not completing his university studies, he excelled in trade and work with his family. He was known for his strong religiosity and constant attendance at the mosque, through which he received the Medal of Honor for memorizing the Holy Quran, which led to people loving and respecting him.
