At the age of 24 Ahmad Nasr Jarrar who is a resident of Burqin town in Jenin has become a source of inspiration for a new generation of Palestinian youths.
Images of two young people who represent different forms of resistance against the occupation have recently emerged in the Palestinian society. The first is for Ahed al-Tamimi: a beautiful girl slapping an Israeli soldier while the second is for Ahmad Jarrar: a handsome young man alone facing an entire army.
A model
Israeli affairs expert Mu’awiya Mousa said that the biggest fear in the Israeli intelligence and security circles is the establishment of a model that inspires others. That’s why the Israeli occupation seeks to eradicate such phenomena by all possible means.
Hundreds of Palestinian youths in Burqin now chant Jarrar’s name call for following his path and engage in violent clashes with Israeli occupation forces on a daily basis during their campaigns in search for the Palestinian fighter.
Jarrar has never been a boastful person. After leading the operation in which an Israeli settler was killed near Nablus he returned to his work selling curtains cloth and cars to customers as usual. No-one expected Jarrar to be the same brave fighter who confused the Israeli occupation.
An orphan
Ahmad grew up an orphan along with his sister and two brothers after the Israeli occupation forces had assassinated his father Nasr Jarrar the leader in Hamas’s armed wing al-Qassam Brigades.
Like father like son. Ahmad survived several assassination attempts. Coincidentally the first assassination attempts that targeted Ahmad and his father were carried out in the same place. After 17 years Ahmad grew up from a child taking his first steps to his father’s successor.
Frenzied campaigns
In addition to the three failed assassination attempts against Ahmad Jarrar not a single night has recently passed in Jenin peacefully without fierce break-ins and arrest campaigns targeting almost whoever shook hands with Ahmad one day.
Although everyone knows that Ahmad may be killed injured or arrested at any moment no-one can deny that the message Ahmad was trying to deliver has been well-received and that a wall of silence has been broken down forever in the West Bank.
(Ahmad was killed by Israeli special forces on Monday night 5/2/2018 only few days after this report was prepared.)
