Nablus: The Mountain of Fire Fights Back
The month of October saw a tremendous increase in resistance operations and the direct targeting of the occupation forces by Palestinians, many of whom were young men belonging to the Lions’ Den resistance group.
Areen al-Usood, or the Lions’ Den in English, is a newly emerged resistance group in the old city of Nablus. Similar to the Jenin Brigades and other groups, the Lions’ Den was established to protect the city of Nablus from the ongoing settler incursions and occupation raids. Palestinians welcomed this group as an extension of revolutionary groups fighting in the ongoing struggle for liberation.
In response to this increase in revolutionary activity and the growing popularity of the Lion’s Den resistance group, occupation forces began a heavy crackdown on the old city of Nablus, placing it under siege and regularly attacking the city under the guise of “security protocol”. Palestinians have gone to the streets to protest this siege that is stifling their already extremely limited movement in the occupied West Bank.
On October 24th, occupation forces stormed the besieged city of Nablus in yet another attempt to stifle the rising tide of resistance amongst the Palestinian youth. In the bloody, hours-long raid, occupation forces killed 5 Palestinian men and injured tens more
Overall, 30 Palestinians were killed by the illegal Israeli occupation in October alone:
| 1 | Fayez Damdoum | October 1 | 17 Years |
| 2 | Khaled Dabbas | October 3 | 22 Years |
| 3 | Alaa Zaghal | October 5 | 21 Years |
| 4 | Mahdi Ladadwah | October 7 | 17 Years |
| 5 | Adel Dawoud | October 7 | 14 Years |
| 6 | Mahmoud Al-Sous | October 8 | 17 Years |
| 7 | Ahmad Daraghmah | October 8 | 16 Years |
| 8 | Mahmoud Khalil Samoudi | October 10 | 12 Years |
| 9 | Osama Adawi | October 13 | 17 Years |
| 10 | 2 palestinian babies | October 1 | (died as a result of tear gas inhalation) |
| 11 | Mateen Dabaya | October 14 | 20 Years |
| 12 | Abdullah Abu Al-Teen | October 14 | 43 Years |
| 13 | Qais Sheja’ya | October 15 | 23 Years |
| 14 | Mujahed Ahmad Daoud | October 16 | 31 Years |
| 15 | Oday Al Tamimi | October 19 | 22 Years |
| 16 | Mohammad Nouri/td> | October 20 | 16 Years |
| 17 | Salah Briki | October 21 | 19 Years |
| 18 | Rabbi’ Arafa Al-Rabi | October 22 | 32 Years |
| 19 | Tamer Al-Kilani | October 23 | 33 Years |
| 20 | Mashaal Baghdadi | October 24 | 27 Years |
| 21 | Ali Antar | October 24 | 26 Years |
| 22 | Wadee’ Al-Houh | October 24 | 31 Years |
| 23 | Hamdi Al-Qayyem | October 24 | 30 Years |
| 24 | Hamdi Sharaf | October 24 | 35 Years |
| 25 | Qusai Al-Tamimi | October 24 | 20 Years |
| 26 | Imad Abu Rashid | October 28 | 47 Years |
| 27 | Ramzi Zabara | October 29 | 35 Years |
| 28 | Muhammad Al-Jabari | October 30 | |
| 29 | Barakat Musa Odeh | October 30 | 49 Years |
