Tel Aviv Tribune Net correspondents
Tulkarm- For a moment, the Palestinian Samer Jaber (Abu Uday) thought that it was a normal raid carried out by the Israeli occupation army in the Nour Shams camp near the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank, and that it was just hours that would end and with it a state of fear that he and his family lived in, worried about his son Mahmoud, who was injured by occupation fire.
In a full-fledged Israeli military operation launched by the Israeli occupation army yesterday evening, Saturday, which continued for more than 12 hours, and in which it used its military vehicles and bulldozers on the ground, and its drones that fired missiles from the air, 5 young men were killed, many were wounded and arrested, and the infrastructure in the camp was destroyed. 3 houses were demolished, one of which was Abu Uday’s house.
They left him bleeding
Throughout those hours, Abu Uday was waiting for someone to reassure him about his son Mahmoud (23 years old), who was injured and covered in blood in one of the alleys of Al-Manshiya neighborhood in the middle of the camp. He did not know that he had become a martyr, after 6 hours, during which the occupation left him bleeding, without allowing the medical teams to reach him and save him. His injury was “mild,” as he himself described it to his friends and those he spoke to on the phone.
With a missile from a drone that bombed the site where he was found, the resistance fighter Mahmoud Jaber was martyred, and others were martyred in a second bombing, while the occupation vehicles on the ground were bulldozing and destroying the streets, and army snipers mounted the roofs of buildings as soon as they stormed the camp to target everything that moved with their rifle fire.
Despite the difficulty of the scene and the impact it had on Abu Uday and his family, it was expected, as the occupation was pursuing his son, the martyr Mahmoud, and is still pursuing his older brother Muhammad Jaber (Abu Shuja’, 25 years old) and targeting all his relatives to pressure and harm him, as he leads the “Nour Camp Brigade.” “Shams” of the resistance, and is requested by the occupation and other resistance fighters in the camp.
“A path to take and walk in”
With the martyrdom of Mahmoud, the family of Abu Uday Jaber has combined all forms of Palestinian suffering, starting with their catastrophe and displacement from their town of Qinir, Haifa district, which he always told his children about, and ending with the refugee situation in Nour Shams camp, and between the two events there are many stories of captivity, death, displacement, demolition, and persecution.
Abu Uday and 3 of his sons were arrested several times and for many years, and two of them (Uday and Ahmed) are still in detention until now. His house was demolished twice, partially and completely, and the occupation wreaked havoc and destruction on it during dozens of incursions, especially recently during the pursuit of his sons, and his wife was exposed. His children were directly harmed by assault and abuse from the occupation soldiers, to the point that they would leave their home at night and return to it during the day.
Abu Uday told Tel Aviv Tribune Net, while hundreds of people from the camp and outside of it flocked to condole his son’s martyrdom in the camp hall, “The scene of death is difficult, and separation is even more difficult, but it is the path that my children took with their resistance and walked, and they realized that their fate is between victory or martyrdom,” and he adds, “the hope of returning to the homeland and victory.” “It will be achieved through blood and martyrs, and without it we will not be liberated.”
Abu Uday continues, “Until the last moment, two hours before his martyrdom, I met Mahmoud in the alleys of the camp, and I spoke to him a few words. He asked me to pray for him and advised me to take care of myself. He smiled and then left, keeping his calm as he always told me that he was continuing on this path, and that all the occupation’s attacks would not Discourage him or harm him.”
“victory or martyrdom”
Ibrahim Al-Nimr, one of the leaders of Nour Shams camp, says, “This refugee who was displaced from his land and displaced in various parts of the country had no fault, except that he dreamed of returning to it and liberating it from the fire of the occupation, so his fate was death.” He adds that this is the case of his friend, the citizen Samer Jaber, who stood steadfast and was patient. Mourners mourned the martyrdom of his son, and he muttered that he was a martyr before God.
Al-Nimr continues his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, “Abu Uday’s suffering did not stop at the story of his son’s martyrdom. He has another pursuer whose fate may be death. He also has two prisoners, and his house was bombed as punishment for him and his family, but that did not affect him.”
In the face of this unknown fate and the closing of every horizon for a political solution, Leader Al-Nimr says, “The Palestinians have no choice but to live in this stage, which is either victory and a return towards the motherland, Haifa and all the areas from which they were displaced, or death and martyrdom,” and he adds, “There is no second emigration and no other option.” We have tried all forms of tragedy.”
Some time ago, the martyr Mahmoud bid farewell to friends and resistance fighters with him in the camp, and today his father and his family bid him farewell, including his persecuted brother, “Abu Shuja,” to the sound of chants of revenge and revenge for him, while his aunt shouted at the morgue in the Martyr Thabet Governmental Hospital, “You asked for it and you got it, oh my aunt, my aunt.” My heart, may God have mercy on you.”
