Islamic Jihad hails martyred teenager as a ‘guardian of Quds’

The Palestinian resistance movement of Islamic Jihad hails recent death-defying action by a Palestinian teenager against Israeli forces that led to his martyrdom, commending his service in asserting the Palestinians’ right to the Israel-occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.

Palestinian sources reported on Monday that a 17-year-old Palestinian had opened fire on Israeli forces near Bab Huta, one of the gates of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem al-Quds in the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank. He reportedly injured an Israeli troop, and was immediately targeted by the Israeli forces’ fatal fire.

Israeli forces kill young Palestinian in Aqsa Mosque

Israeli forces have fatally shot a young Palestinian near Bab Huta, one of the gates to al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.

The sources identified the youth as Mahmoud Omar Kameel of the city of Jenin in northern West Bank.

The Islamic Jihad, which is headquartered in the nearby Israel-blockaded Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip, released a statement later, saying Kameel’s courageous action had verified the legitimacy of resistance in the face of the occupying regime.

The movement said Kameel’s choosing to take on the heavily-armed forces served as a “slap” in the face of the regional Arab regimes, which have been joining United States-brokered détente deals with Israel one after another.

As part of a September-present pattern, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco have normalized their relations with Tel Aviv under Washington-mediated deals.

The Islamic Jihad said Kameel opted to serve as “a guardian of al-Quds,” unfazed by the US push to try to lend legitimacy to the occupiers and the Arab regimes’ efforts to endear themselves to Washington and Tel Aviv.

The martyr’s struggle, it added, also served as “an outcry” against Israeli settlers’ regular breach of the al-Aqsa Mosque’s compound under the Israeli military’s protection. Palestinians have denounced the recurrent invasions of the compound, home to Muslim's third-holiest site, as an effort towards changing its status quo.

Commending Kameel as a “hero,” the movement, therefore, singled out “all-out resistance” as “the best means of confronting the Zionist regime’s growing acts of terrorism.”

The Islamic Jihad asserted that as long as the Israeli occupation and aggression persisted, the flames of resistance would remain ablaze too.

Hamas, the movement’s fellow Gaza-based resistance group, also commented on Kameel’s martyrdom, warning against continued violation of the compound by the occupiers, and avowing that the Palestinian nation was prepared to retaliate against Israeli aggression.

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