JENIN (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces dressed in plain clothes on Tuesday executed Jihad Nawahda after ambushing and wounding him in Jenin district shortly after midnight Monday only one month after his release from PA jails in the West Bank.
A senior source in the Islamic Jihad Movement said on Tuesday that the special IOF unit assassinated Nawahda the prominent Jihad activist after wounding him and taking him prisoner near his family home in Yamon village northwest of Jenin city.
The source said that shortly afterwards the Israeli occupation forces told the Palestinian liaison office that Nawahda was dead and delivered his body to the Jenin government hospital.
Nawahda was released from PA security apparatuses’ jails a month ago and the IOA soldiers intensified campaigns to arrest him following his release the source said noting that even the PA security apparatuses sought to arrest him anew but he always managed to evade arrest.
The PA security elements at dawn Tuesday detained another Jihad activist Ali Bani Oda near Tamun village and tried to arrest Ammar Sawafta in the same area.
The source noted that the three Nawahda Bani Oda and Sawafta were all released from PA jails a month ago and were being held for carrying out “banned activity” as described by the PA security.
He held the PA leadership fully responsible for the Israeli targeting of Jihad members saying the joint security coordination between the PA and Israel aimed at disarming resistance.
Meanwhile Daoud Shihab the Jihad official spokesman said that security coordination was posing great dangers on the Palestinian people and its resistance.
He added that the assassination reflected the PA leadership’s insistence on implementing the American General Keith Dayton’s security plan in the West Bank which targets liquidating resistance forces.
Shihab said that the resistance factions should not extend the calm agreement in Gaza without including the West Bank.
