Today, Friday, Hamas expressed astonishment at "the behavior of the Palestinian Authority security services in pursuing and arresting resistance fighters," stating that "the situation has reached its most dangerous stage." It emphasized that "the leadership of the Authority must rein in the security forces from pursuing the resistance and wanted individuals in the West Bank."
Hamas praised "the public awareness and rapid response in Tulkarm, which helped prevent the arrest of the fighter Abu Shuja and lift the siege against him." Citizens managed to evacuate the commander of the Tulkarm Battalion, Mohammad Jaber Abu Shuja, from Thabet Thabet Hospital in Tulkarm, where he was besieged by Palestinian security forces, amid calls from resistance factions to mobilize to the hospital to break the siege.
Abu Shuja has faced multiple assassination attempts from the Israeli army, the most notable of which was in April, when he was carried on shoulders during the funeral of martyrs in the Nur Shams camp east of Tulkarm, just days after announcing his assassination during an extensive Israeli raid that lasted over 50 hours, resulting in the death of 14 Palestinians.
Abu Shuja belongs to a Palestinian family that was displaced by Israel from the city of Haifa during the Nakba in 1948 and settled in the Nur Shams camp. He was born as the middle child among five siblings, grew up in the camp, and studied in its schools, but he did not complete his education due to dire circumstances.
Abu Shuja has been arrested in Israeli prisons since he was 17 years old and has been detained twice, spending around five years in prison, in addition to being arrested twice by Palestinian Authority prisons. His younger brother Mahmoud was killed during an Israeli raid on the camp.
