Billboard seen in Gaza honouring Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi’s martyrdom

Besieged Gaza Strip (QNN)- A billboard with the picture of Palestinian martyr Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, who was assassinated last week by Israeli forces in Nablus, has been raised in a major street in Gaza to honor his martyrdom as a courageous resistance fighter.

The billboard has the picture of Al-Nabulsi and reads, “The martyr leader, Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, the Martyr of all Palestine. The meeting is in paradise, Inshallah.”

On Tuesday, August 9, Israeli occupation forces assassinated Palestinian Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi, one of the most wanted resistance fighters by the Israeli occupation forces in Nablus and the head of Fatah’s armed wing, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. He was shot and seriously injured during exchanges of fire with the Israeli soldiers in the heart of Nablus’ old city, and he was later pronounced dead in Rafidia Hospital.

Al-Nabulsi was inside a house where the fighters were barricading themselves in. At around 5am local time (02:00 GMT) on Tuesday, the house was cordoned off and blown up by the Israeli forces who fired an anti-tank missile toward it. A gunfight lasted for several hours, resulting in killing Al-Nabulsi and two others.

Born on October 13, 2003, Al-Nabulsi has been known popularly as “the lion of Nablus.”

Israeli occupation accuses Al-Nabulsi of a series of alleged shooting operations targeting its forces who attacked and tried to assassinate Al-Nabulsi several times previously, most recently on July 24 when he and a group of fighters were surrounded in a house in the al-Yasmina neighbourhood in the Old City in Nablus. He got out alive after heavy confrontation, while two other resistance fighters, Mohammad Azizi, 25, and Abdelrahman Soboh, 28, were assassinated. Al-Nabulsi then decided to show up at Soboh and Azizi’s funerals, raising the ire of Israeli forces.

Moreover, the first known attempt to arrest Nablusi is believed to have happened in February, during a clandestine military operation in Al-Makhfia neighbourhood. He was initially thought to be among the three youths killed that day, before he emerged once again alive at their funerals.

In a farewell message that was circulated on social media just before his assassination, al-Nabulsi expressed his love for his parents and bade them farewell.

“I love you all, I am now going to die a martyr’s death. Take care of the homeland after I am gone,” Al-Nabulsi told the Palestinians in the recording message.

“I am asking that you never leave your weapons. I love my mother, pray for me. I am surrounded now but I will fight until I become a martyr.”