On the evening of Wednesday, 4 December Zionist occupation forces abducted Haneen Jaber, the mother of the martyrs Mohammed Jaber (Abu Shujaa) and Mahmoud Jaber, at the entrance to Qalqilya city, occupied Palestine; she was then transferred to the Jalameh interrogation center, where she currently is being held captive.
The arrest and targeting of the mothers — and fellow relatives — of martyrs and resistance fighters is a common practice of the occupation regime in Palestine. It is frequently used in an attempt to force people to turn themselves in, or as a form of collective punishment in an attempt to deter future resistance fighters from confronting the occupation. For example, Tahani Masoud Mona, the mother of the martyr Jaafar Mona, is currently being held in administrative detention without charge or trial under a 4-month order. She is one of 27 Palestinian women prisoners jailed under administrative detention on the basis of a so-called “secret file” out of 3428 total administrative detainees, among over 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails.
Haneen’s son, the martyr Mohammed Jaber, Abu Shujaa, became a legendary resistance fighter and a leader of the Tulkarem Brigades with Saraya al-Quds of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, martyred at the age of 26. He was abducted for the first time by the Zionist regime when he was 17 years old and spent 5 years in occupation prisons through multiple arrests, where he was imprisoned alongside leaders of the resistance.
He was assassinated by the occupation regime on 29 August 2024 after multiple assassination attempts, and battled with the occupation until the last moment alongside his fellow strugglers, Hamouda al-Awfi and Majd Daoud. All three of their bodies were kidnapped by the occupation as part of the ongoing policy of the abduction of the bodies of martyrs as a form of collective punishment and in order to hold them hostage.
Watch his interview with Al-Mayadeen before his assassination (subtitled in English):
If you have not seen Abu Shujaa’s interview with AlMayadeen weeks ago – subtitled in English on X by @BIG__Brother7 – please do. It is one of the main reasons the Zionist regime cited to ban AlMayadeen – because they are so afraid of his voice. pic.twitter.com/tXgxlnqryD
— Samidoun Network (@SamidounPP) August 29, 2024
Nine months earlier, in December 2023, his brother, Mahmoud Jaber, was martyred in the Nour Shams camp, killed by the occupation forces during one of their attacks on the camp’s people. He was one of five Palestinians martyred that day in the camp as they confronted the invading occupation forces.
Haneen has two living sons, Ahmad and Uday; Ahmad is currently imprisoned by the occupation, while Uday is a liberated prisoner who was released in 2019.
