At least three Palestinian resistance fighters were killed in the early morning of Friday, 30 August by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Zababdeh, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
One of the slain fighters was later identified as Wissam Ayman Khazem, 30, a commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. Khazem was reportedly shot dead as his vehicle was targeted by Israeli gunfire.
The other two fighters were identified as Maysara Suleiman Masharqa, 33, and Arafat Jaser Amer, 27, who were targeted by a drone after they had escaped the shooting attack. Amer was a member of the Jenin Brigade, affiliated with Saraya al-Quds, the military wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Masharqa was a field commander with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a network of military groups associated with Fatah.
The bodies of the three fighters were reportedly confiscated by the Israeli occupation forces, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Confiscating the corpses of Palestinian freedom fighters has been a long-standing practice by the Israeli forces, using them as bargaining chips for future negotiations.
On the evening of 30 August, Israeli occupation forces forced Palestinian families to evacuate the eastern neighbourhood of Jenin as part of its large-scale military operation in the West Bank.
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The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese slammed Israel for justifying the launching of a large-scale offensive in the West Bank using “self-defence” as a pretext. – Peoples Dispatch/Globetrotter News Service
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