Who is the fighting martyr that the Al-Qassam Brigades called? | policy

The Israeli occupation forces assassinated the freed prisoner and leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Jaafar Dababsa (40 years old), on Tuesday, in front of his home in the village of Al-Badhan near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, after 15 months of chasing him, as he was described as “one of the most wanted persons by the occupation.” “.

At four in the morning on Tuesday, Israeli special forces surrounded Dabassa’s house, and he engaged in an armed clash with them before being hit by several bullets, which led to his immediate death.

Sources close to his family told Tel Aviv Tribune Net that Dabassa clashed with the occupation soldiers for a period of time before his martyrdom, and that he heard the sound of their screams during that time, and traces of blood were also seen where the soldiers were near the house, indicating that there had been casualties among their ranks.

According to the same sources, after Dabasa was injured and left bleeding, the soldiers detained his body and were about to kidnap him after placing him on a stretcher, but they backed down after they became certain of his martyrdom, and he was then transported via the Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance to Rafidiya Governmental Hospital.

A revolutionary upbringing

The martyr Jaafar Ahmed Faleh Dababseh was born in the 1980s, to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother, and his father was one of the leaders of the Palestinian revolution in Lebanon.

With the arrival of the Palestinian Authority to the West Bank and Gaza in the early 1990s after the signing of the Oslo Accords, the martyr returned with his parents among those who were known as “returnees” at the time. His father worked as a military officer with the rank of major general in the Authority and then retired from it.

The martyr Dababsa came from a struggling and revolutionary family, as his father is known to be one of the first generation of the resistance, and he had an imprint in the Palestinian revolution along with its leaders in Lebanon, from Khalil Al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) to Saad Sayel and Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad), and he was arrested in the prisons of the Syrian regime. And other Arab prisons.

His paternal grandfather, Hajj Faleh Al-Awad, is also known as one of the most prominent veteran fighters who joined the ranks of the Palestinian revolution in 1936. His maternal grandfather also participated in guerrilla and struggle operations against the Israeli occupier, including “hijacking planes carrying Israelis.”

Religious obligation

The martyr Dababsa, nicknamed “Abu Hamza,” is the eldest of 6 siblings. He has been married since 2013, and has 3 children (a daughter and two sons), and his mother died in 2020 while he was detained in Israeli occupation prisons.

In the schools of his village, Talluza, north of the city of Nablus, where his family is from, the martyr Dabassa received his primary and secondary studies, and then he joined Al-Quds Open University in Nablus, completing his studies in Islamic law. Due to his repeated arrests, he was unable to complete his graduate studies.

Since his childhood, he was known for his religious and moral commitment, and for his measured speech as a man who formed a common denominator for all, as he memorized the entire Holy Qur’an and the seven recitations, and narrated it inside his prison in front of his sheikhs among the prisoner leaders. He was famous for his great memorization of the Prophet’s hadiths. He was also an articulate orator and had a wide cultural and religious presence.

In 2002, the series of arrests of Jaafar Dababsa began, as he was captured while trying to carry out a martyrdom operation, and he spent 15 years in the occupation prisons, intermittently, between sentences and administrative detention. He was expelled for various periods, as he insisted on not surrendering himself to the occupation army, and the Palestinian Authority arrested him for about two years.

The occupation accused him of helping the martyr Ashraf Naalwa from the city of Tulkarm, who carried out a commando operation in 2018 in the “Barkan” settlement established on the lands of the city of Salfit, killing two Israelis and wounding a third.

Biography and virtues

Two months before the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation on October 7, 2023, the martyr Dabasa was released, and as the occupation began carrying out arrest campaigns after the war on Gaza and pursuing the resistance and freed prisoners, especially those affiliated with the Hamas movement, the martyr was expelled, who refused – and under all pressures – He turned himself in “because he does not want to go back to prison again,” according to his relatives.

The occupation tried to arrest him several times, and besieged homes and locations where he took refuge, but they failed to reach him until dawn on Tuesday, when they assassinated him in front of his house and among his children and family.

The Hebrew Channel 13 reported that an Israeli soldier was seriously injured during a clash during the arrest of a Palestinian resistance fighter near Nablus, in reference to the martyr Dababasa.

In front of Rafidia Governmental Hospital, the martyr was taken to his final resting place in the village of Talouza, where he was given farewell in his family’s home, and then he was transferred to the Imam Mosque in the village, to be buried in its cemetery this afternoon.

While social media activists circulated the biography of the martyr Dababasa and his good qualities, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, described him as one of its leaders.

She said, in her statement, a copy of which was received by Tel Aviv Tribune Net, “The Al-Qassam Brigades remember the path of its martyr, the leader, who had tours and tours in the fight against the Zionist enemy, starting from the Al-Aqsa Intifada, passing through the Al-Quds uprising, and reaching the Al-Aqsa flood, stressing that its mujahideen are continuing on the same path until liberation, God willing.” “.