The Hamas Movement and its armed wing al-Qassam Brigades in the Gaza Strip have held the Israeli occupation state and its collaborators fully responsible for the assassination of Mazen Fuqaha one of its military commanders.
In a press release on Friday evening Hamas mourned the death of Fuqaha describing him one of the heroes of al-Qassam Brigades in the West Bank and one of the Palestinian prisoners who were released as part of the 2011 swap deal.
Hamas noted that martyr Fuqaha was killed on Friday evening by unknown assassins outside his home in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood southeast of Gaza City.
“The occupation knows that the blood of resistance fighters does not go in vain and the Hamas Movement knows how to respond to such crimes” its statement said.
Earlier a spokesman for the interior ministry in Gaza told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that the police had found the body of Fuqaha with four bullets in his head and launched an investigation into the incident.
For its part al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas mourned Fuqaha on its website and held Israel responsible for his assassination.
Fuqaha was originally from Tubas in the West Bank northeast of Nablus.
Fuqaha was serving 6 life sentences in Israeli prison for his involvement in a 2002 attack in Safad in northern 1948 Occupied Palestine that killed six Israelis in response to the assassination of Sheikh Salah Shehada a founding leader of Hamas’s armed wing. He was deported to Gaza following his release in the prisoner exchange deal in 2011.
