NABLUS (Dispatches) – A senior member of the Palestinian resistance group Lion’s Den has been martyred in a bomb attack in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, amid an ongoing siege on Nablus imposed by the Zionist regime’s military following the killing of a soldier.
Lion’s Den announced in a statement that Tamer Kilani, a top member of the upstart organization, lost his life in an apparent assassination in the early hours of Sunday.
The statement added that an explosive device attached to a motorcycle detonated in the Old City of Nablus, located approximately 49 kilometers north of al-Quds, as Kilani was passing by.
Lion’s Den likened Kilani’s assassination to that of the two Palestinian resistance fighters, al-Nani Jawabra and Bassem Abu Sariya. They were assassinated in two separate explosions during the Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada.
The Palestinian resistance group also threatened a “painful response,” and called on the public to attend Kilani’s funeral later on Sunday.
Video footage showing the blast was circulating on social media, as was a clip purported to show a Zionist “collaborator” planting the bomb.
Lion’s Den has claimed responsibility for most shooting attacks in the Nablus area since it was formed in August by members of various Palestinian resistance groups, including people previously affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and the Islamic Jihad, among others.
Meanwhile, Zionist troops fatally shot a Palestinian man and critically injured a teenager during separate attacks across the occupied West Bank on Sunday.
Rabi Arafah Rabi, 32, was targeted with a headshot fired by the troopers, as he was traveling to his workplace in the occupied Palestinian territories, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported, citing the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry.
According to the Palestinian Information Center, he was shot at the 109 checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya.
The Palestinian man was then rushed to a hospital inside the city, but succumbed to his wounds only a couple of minutes later.
His father condemned the murder as an execution carried out in cold blood.
Also on Saturday, a Zionist police member invaded a stadium in the flashpoint neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in the eastern side of the occupied city of Al-Quds in the West Bank, opening fire at 16-year-old Mohammad Rajab Abu Qteish, Wafa said.
Videos shared on the social media showed the teenager lying down helplessly after being shot and injured, without being provided with first aid.
Wafa also reported that after shooting the teenager, Zionist troops arrested his father and brother about two hours after the incident in Sheikh Jarrah. It added that the troops raided the teenager’s family home in the town of Anata, northeast of Al-Quds, and arrested his father, Rajab, and his brother.