Today marks the anniversary of the martyrdom of Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in the occupied West Bank. He was martyred along with two of his comrades after Israeli helicopters targeted his car with more than five missiles, following a life dedicated to jihad, resistance, and strategic operations.
A Promising Mujahid
The martyred Qassam fighter was born on July 1, 1967. He completed his secondary education in the village of Asira al-Shamaliya and in 1995 enrolled at the College of Da'wah and Fundamentals of Religion in occupied Jerusalem, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Islamic Law.
With the outbreak of the First Palestinian Intifada in 1987, Abu Hanoud, like many other young Palestinian revolutionaries, rushed to participate in its activities. In 1988, he was seriously wounded by gunfire during clashes with Israeli soldiers and was subsequently arrested and imprisoned for several months in Megiddo Prison.
After his release, Abu al-Hanoud became an active member of Hamas in the Nablus area. In December 1992, he and five others from his hometown of Asira al-Shamaliya were deported to Marj al-Zuhur along with 400 other members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The deportation did not deter Abu al-Hanoud. He continued his activities within the Islamic movement and later became involved in military operations. He became a prominent member of the military wing of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades after the martyrdom of Qassam commander Muhyiddin al-Sharif, who was the number one target of both the Zionist security services and the treacherous Palestinian Authority.
Abu al-Hanoud's prominence increased in 1996 when he was arrested along with other Hamas activists in a campaign launched by the Palestinian security forces. However, he was released and reportedly escaped from prison in May of the same year. The occupation accused the martyr Mahmoud Abu al-Hanoud of being behind the recruitment of the five suicide bombers who blew themselves up in 1997 AD, and it turned out that most of them came from the village of Asira al-Shamaliya, north of Nablus, which is under Zionist security control.
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