On this day 41 years ago, resistance fighters captured eight zionist soldiers, leading to the largest prisoner exchange in Palestinian history.

A month after zionists decided to step foot in Lebanon, Palestinian fighters vowed revenge. In the mountains of Bhamdoun, southern Lebanon, four fighters of the Jarmaq Brigade of Fatah monitored the movements of zionist soldiers. Issa Hajjo and other fighters wore fake zionist-backed Lebanese Forces uniforms and carried their stereotypical AK-47s.

Hajjo walked straight to the zionists, speaking French to deceive them and shaking hands with zionist officers. Suddenly, he aimed his gun at a Sergeant Cohen, who immediately surrendered. For all the planning, the operation was quick, as the other three fighters quickly ambushed the other unprepared soldiers. Without firing a single bullet, eight IOF soldiers had been captured.

The Fatah fighters did not need the evacuation vehicles they had prepared, and they simply walked away pretending to be a joint IOF-LF patrol. Hours later, the Syrian-allied PFLP-GC facilitated the transfer of the prisoners; they kept two prisoners while six remained with Fatah and were handed over to the Jarmaq Brigade's commander, Mahmoud Al-Aloul, who today serves as the deputy head to Mahmoud Abbas.

Soon after, Fatah made a number of demands, initially rejected by the zionists. The tides turned once the zionist prisoners' health situation deteriorated and it was revealed that PFLP-GC had an extra prisoner.

In November 1983, the zionists agreed to the prisoner exchange demands: all 4,600 prisoners in Lebanon were released, 65 prisoners in "israeli" jails were released (including 52 with life sentences), and the archives of the Palestine Research Center were returned. Further, three years later, the PFLP-GC exchanged its three prisoners for 1,150 Palestinian prisoners, in a deal led by Ahmed Jibril. This deal led to the freedom of Hamas leader martyr Ahmed Yassin, PIJ Secretary-General Ziad Al-Nakhaleh, and resistance fighter Kozo Okamoto.

⚫️ Member of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Khaled Al-Batsh to Palestine Today:
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The "israeli" entity is seeking to transfer its internal crisis from "Tel Aviv" to the West Bank and Gaza.

We will not give up the right of resistance, nor do we wait for agreement with all forces if we decide to respond to any assassination.

The most burning arena of confrontation today is the West Bank, and we are fighting in the throat of the occupation, cutting off their breath and air.

All the political attempts made by the occupation to activate the role of the PA and others will not succeed in isolating Jenin from the rest of the West Bank.

The resistance thwarted the entity in front of public opinion, and it began to worry about its inability to contain the resistance in the West Bank.

Gaza is a lever for the Palestinian people and represents the striking hand to the occupation army and a support for the resistance fighters everywhere.

The resistance in Gaza continues to develop its tools and is ready for any upcoming confrontation.

The unity of the field in the face of the occupation is the solution, the remedy, and the right way towards arranging the Palestinian internal house. The Saraya Al-Quds formations in the West Bank are a national link between all the resistance groups there.

We are open to understanding and setting a protocol for the use of weapons, but there is a goal to create a clash between the fighters in the field [by the PA].

We want national unity to rebuild the Palestinian national project, which aims to confront the settlements and the crimes of the entity. We do not obstruct any political understandings that generate positive results for the Palestinian people.

The resistance is fine, it is consolidating its strength on the ground, and making its way in the West Bank, despite all the difficulties.

🚨 Occupation forces are invading #Tulkarem in large numbers.

🚨 Armed clashes have broken out in Nour Shams camp, #Tulkarem as the IOF invades the camp with a number of bulldozers. Gunfire and explosive devices have targeted the invading forces. Sirens ring in nearby Tulkarem camp.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Tulkarem Brigade:
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Our fighters are targeting the occupation forces in the Al-Mahjar area and Al-Salam neighborhood, and detonating a number of explosive devices against the vehicles and soldiers of the occupation.

🚨 The resistant people of #Tulkarem disabled an occupation armored bulldozer using a locally-made explosive device.

Resistant youth burned an IOF jeep during fierce confrontations in Kafr Aqab, #AlQuds. The burnt jeep is at the front of the convoy in the video.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Tulkarem Brigade:
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Our fighters are directing concentrated strikes against the occupation forces and vehicles on more than one axis with heavy hails of bullets and explosive devices.

🟡 Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - Tulkarem Brigade (Rapid Response Groups):
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Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest.

Our heroic fighters are confronting the occupation forces with concentrated and direct barrages of bullets inside Nour Shams camp.

Tulkarem Brigade (Rapid Response Groups)
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - Palestine
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The IOF vehicle targeted by the resistant youth of Kafr Aqab, #AlQuds was disabled and withdrawn by zionist forces.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Tulkarem Brigade:
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Our fighters continue at these moments to confront the occupation forces and vehicles with heavy barrages of bullets and explosive devices.

⚫ Saraya Al-Quds - Tulkarem Brigade:
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Our fighters are engaged in intense clashes with the occupation forces on multiple axes, and they are targeting the occupation forces with a number of explosive devices and heavy barrages of bullets.

Our fighters are targeting groups of the occupation snipers in several axes with intense barrages of bullets.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Tulkarem Brigade:
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Our fighters are targeting the occupation forces that stormed the Tulkarem camp with heavy barrages of bullets and explosive devices.

🟡 Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades:
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The fighters of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades are trageting a force of the zionist enemy's army, which stormed the Nour Shams camp in the city of Tulkarem, with heavy barrages of bullets.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Tulkarem Brigade:
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Our fighters in the Engineering Unit managed to detonate a high-impact explosive device (Saif 1) in a concentration of the occupation vehicles, hitting them directly.

⚫️ Saraya Al-Quds - Tulkarem Brigade:
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Our fighters are targeting the concentration of the occupation forces and vehicles on several axes inside the camp with heavy barrages of bullets and explosive devices.