The Hebrew State chasing young members of the armed group of the “Lions pit”, very popular in the West Bank. The Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz, promised that all would finish in prison or killed.
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If it was necessary to prove more popularity among the Palestinians of the armed group Areen al-U-Ussoud, the “den” or the “lions pit”, during this period of larvé intifada where the West Bank rushes , it was enough to follow the funeral of one of their leaders, Tuesday, October 25, in Nablus. Thousands of people paid tribute to Wadih al-Houh, a colossus killed by Israeli forces the same day, with four of his comrades, in the big bourgeois northern city in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967.
The Israeli forces had targeted a cache and a bombs manufacturing workshop, established by this very young movement, which has a few dozen armed men. Nationalists, doomed to the fight against Israel, the “lions” claim to be all the Palestinian armed factions, while claiming themselves independent of their political directions. Israel claimed to have foiled two explosive attacks planned in Tel Aviv and in the colony of Kedumim. The army described this raid “terrestrial operation”, an ambitious term which recalls the second intifada, a few days of legislative elections in Israel – planned on 1 er November – while the government is accused by his “incompetence” opposition in this area. The chief of staff, Aviv Kochavi, and the boss of the Shin Bet -Inner intelligence -, Ronen Bar, were present in person in the operation room on Tuesday.
linked to the Jénine camp
On October 23, already, a member of the “lions” died in the old town of Nablus, during the explosion of a motorcycle. According to the group, it was a targeted assassination, a method that the army was almost no longer used in the West Bank since the second Intifada (2000-2005). In fact, Nablus has lived again at the time of intifada since October 12. The army imposed a blockade on its 200,000 inhabitants, in the aftermath of the death of an Israeli soldier, killed by members of the “Lions” near a neighboring colony. Naplus’ main access to remain kept. The controls create traffic jams that cut the city of the rest of the world, in what is akin to a collective punishment. Unpublished fact: Israeli surveillance drones are constantly buzzing above the city.
Tuesday, the Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz, said that all members of the Lions pit would finish in prison or would be killed. The group has been in the viewfinder of the Israeli forces since, at least, in the fall of 2021. In November, they arrested Abdelrahman Shahin, leader of what was only a small cell of a few activists, aged 17 to 22 year. In February, an elite unit of the anti-terrorist police circulating incognito in the middle of Nablus cut three of his comrades: Mohammed al-Dakhil, Adham Mabrouka and Ashraf al-Mabsalt.
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