Ranking Lions' Den leader turns himself in to PA custody

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen Net
27 Oct 2022 11:05
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Prominent Lions' Den leader turns himself in to Palestinian security services for protection, following an agreement.

Mahmoud al-Bana

Mahmoud al-Bana, a prominent Lions' Den leader who was wounded in an Israeli raid on Nablus, turned himself in to Palestinian Authority security services in order to protect the lives of his fellow Resistance fighters.

In a statement, the Palestinian Resistance group Areen Al-Ousoud (The Lions' Den) said that members of the group met with PA security forces to negotiate a deal in which the Resistance fighters would turn themselves in and be protected from Israeli occupation.

The statement added that the PA has been under immense pressure from the Israeli occupation, which threatened that if Mahmoud al-Bana is not placed under its custody, then the IOF would conduct large-scale incursions to target the Resistance fighters.

“The Lions' Den group has not asked any official or security body, no matter how respectable, to take in our fighters, and should anyone surrender themselves, then this is a choice they made out of their own accord,” the statement read.

“We will inflict severe damage on our enemy,” the statement affirmed.

This comes shortly after Areen Al-Ousoud revealed some details pertaining to the night Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Nablus, during which one of the organization's ranking members, Wadih Al-Houh, was martyred, along with five other Palestinians. Lions' Den stressed that its leadership lured the occupation to the operation in the old city of Nablus.

The Lions' Den consists of groups that include members of various Palestinian factions in Nablus and Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank.