West Bank- The Palestinian resistance fighter, who was persecuted for more than a year, Abdul Hakim Shaheen, known as “Aboud Shaheen,” was martyred after being seriously wounded during a military operation by the Israeli occupation army in the city of Nablus at dawn on Tuesday.
Despite the conflicting reports, a source in Shaheen’s family confirmed to Tel Aviv Tribune Net the news of his martyrdom, and said that the Nablus Governorate and the Palestinian Civil Liaison officially informed them of this and that the occupation was detaining his body.
While local sources reported that clashes took place between the resistance fighters and the occupation at the moment of the storming, others confirmed that the occupation soldiers set up ambushes in a number of houses in an area close to Al-Nasr Street and Bab Al-Saha in the middle of the Old City of Nablus, luring the resistance fighters, including Shaheen, and shooting them as they left, which led to his direct injury.
First appearance
Ahmed Jibril, director of ambulance and emergency services at the Palestinian Crescent Society in Nablus, reported that Shaheen (33 years old) was hit by several bullets in the chest and thigh area, and his condition was very critical, as appeared to the Crescent crews who arrived at him in an area close to Al-Baik Mosque in the middle of the Old City after the occupation army obstructed them. For about half an hour.
Jibril told Tel Aviv Tribune Net that the occupation army surrounded the injured person before his martyrdom and left him bleeding, preventing medical teams from reaching him and providing ambulance to him, as he remained lying on the ground, covered in his blood, before the occupation forces detained his body and withdrew from the city at approximately seven in the morning this morning.
Abdul Hakim Mamoun Shaheen was born in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank to parents retired from the Ministry of Education, where his father worked as a sports professor, and his mother was a school principal. He is the youngest of 4 siblings (two boys and two girls). He grew up in the city and studied in its schools, where he completed high school. He then joined Palestine Technical University (Kadoorie) to study mechatronics (vehicle mechanical engineering) and graduated as an engineer there.
After completing his education, Shaheen worked as a security officer in the Palestinian Authority in the Civil Defense Service, but he soon resigned from it and moved to private work.
On November 15, 2021, Shaheen’s first public appearance was in resistance work, as the occupation army arrested him after besieging his family’s home on Asira Street in Nablus. When he jumped from the balcony trying to escape, he was hit by an Israeli sniper’s bullets, which shattered his knee. He was also injured after being bitten by a dog. A police officer belonging to the occupation army.
Hafiz Quran
Shaheen was subjected to a harsh interrogation at the Israeli “Petah Tikva” military center that lasted 47 days before the occupation sentenced him to two years in prison.
He was released in late August 2023, and shortly after his liberation, he began resistance work and reshaped his cells. He appeared more than once clashing and confronting the occupation army during its storming of Nablus, especially the Old City.
Shaheen was credited with “establishing the first resistance cells through the Lions’ Den groups” that appeared about 3 years ago in Nablus, similar to the resistance brigades in Jenin and Tulkarm.
He was also known for his noble morals, kindness, and people’s love for him. He also maintained his physical health by engaging in bodybuilding, as he owned a special sports club for that.
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He was also known for the beauty of his voice when reciting the Holy Qur’an, which he memorized in its entirety. He recently appeared in a number of video clips singing religious songs, and in others recited by an imam during the “Great Dawn” prayer in Al-Nasr Mosque in the Old City.
There were many calls to revive those prayers, the appearance of which previously coincided with the restart of work in Nablus and the emergence of the “Lions’ Den Resistance Groups” more than two years ago.
Harassment
Shaheen was subjected to much harassment from the Palestinian security services, which tried more than once to arrest him, and through intimidation and persuasion – and throughout the period of his pursuit, which extended for more than a year – forced him to surrender himself.
But he refused to do so and said that despite the authorities’ persecution and shooting of him, he refused to clash with them and worked to “avoid” them, according to his statement that he published on his Facebook page.
Until a few hours before his arrest and injury, the Palestinian security forces stormed the Old City of Nablus and tried to surround and arrest him after they opened fire on him, but he fled towards the alleys of the Old City.
Then he released a video clip that he broadcast on social media, saying in his last words, “This gun will continue to strike the army. This gun will remain pointed at the Israeli occupation army and will fire at it.”
Shaheen appeared carrying his rifle, surrounded by a group of young men in the middle of the Old City. He announced that he would continue his resistance to the occupation and refuse to surrender himself to the authorities under all temptations, amid chants of “God is Great” from these young men.
He continued, “No one can prevent us from shooting at the occupation army, and I refused and will reject all the temptations and offers that they presented to me, and I will not hide behind the blood of the martyrs as they do.”
Following Shaheen’s martyrdom, young men set fire to rubber tires in the Martyrs’ Roundabout area in the center of Nablus, and shops in the Old City closed their doors and declared a general strike.