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| Senior member of Palestinian terror group Lion’s Den killed in Nablus explosion |
| 2022-10-23 |
| [IsraelTimes] Organization accuses Israel of ’assassinating’ Tamer Kilani by attaching a bomb to a cycle of violence, amid crackdown on daily attacks emanating from flashpoint West Bank city A senior member of a loosely organized Paleostinian terror group known as Lion’s Den was killed early Sunday in a kaboom in the West Bank city of Nablus, with the group claiming Israel "assassinated" him. Oh no. Anyways... Tamer Kilani, a top member of the upstart organization — which has claimed near-nightly attacks on Israeli troops and civilians amid a crackdown on Nablus — was killed at approximately 1:30 a.m. when an bomb attached to a cycle of violence detonated in Nablus’s Old City, according to the group and to Paleostinian media reports. In a statement, Lion’s Den claimed that Israeli forces planted the bomb, although some reports suggested it might have been an accident. The group threatened a "painful response," and called on the public to attend Kilani’s funeral later Sunday. Video footage allegedly showing the blast was circulating on social media, as was a clip purported to show an Israeli "collaborator" planting the bomb. The Israel Defense Forces did not publically comment on the earth-shattering kaboom and the member’s death. Hebrew-language military correspondents, who are regularly briefed off-the-record by bigwigs, said Kilani was directly involved in sending a Paleostinian man to attempt to commit a "large-scale" attack in Tel Aviv last month, among several more shooting attacks in the Nablus area. The reports also said he was previously locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! by Israel. Tensions in the Nablus area have ratcheted up in recent weeks, with Israel’s military placing a cordon around the Paleostinian city to crack down on Lion’s Den. Lion’s Den has grabbed credit for the majority of shooting attacks in the Nablus area since it was formed in August by members of various terror groups, including people previously affiliated with the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... , among others. One Israeli soldier was killed in an attack by the group and a second person was lightly injured in a separate assault on civilian vehicles. The other attacks have been ineffectual, but videos of the shootings uploaded to social media have helped it win it massive popularity on the Paleostinian street in a short period of time. The group, based in Nablus’s Old City, is believed to consist of several dozen members, mostly young, secular men, who eschew any proper hierarchy, unlike other armed factions in the West Bank. Israeli officials have labeled the group as a "terror squad." While most other unorganized popular resistance involves attacking troops conducting operations inside Paleostinian cities, Lion’s Den members do not wait for troops to come to them, instead heading outside of the Nablus Old City on an almost nightly basis and attacking Israeli targets in the area, before managing to flee back unscathed, almost every time. In arrests raids across the West Bank early Sunday, the IDF said troops arrested nine wanted Paleostinians. Related: Lion’s Den: 2022-10-20 IDF soldiers arrest 12 wanted Palestinians in West Bank amid ongoing unrest Lion’s Den: 2022-10-13 Soldier killed in shooting attack Tuesday while securing settler march in northern West Bank Lion’s Den: 2022-10-03 Soldier lightly wounded in West Bank shooting; IDF: Civilians also targeted |
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