Naif Abu Sharah (1966 – 27 June 2004) ( ar, نائف أبو شارة) was a Palestinian member of the

al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades () is a coalition of Palestinian armed groups in the West Bank. The organization has been designated as a terrorist organization by Israel, the European Union, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States. L ...

Nablus Nablus ( ; ar, نابلس, Nābulus ; he, שכם, Šəḵem, ISO 259-3: ; Samaritan Hebrew: , romanized: ; el, Νεάπολις, Νeápolis) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located approximately north of Jerusalem, with a populati ...

, an armed wing of

Fatah Fatah ( ar, فتح '), formerly the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist social democratic political party and the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and ...

. He was killed in an

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operation in the old city of Nablus in 2004 along with two other senior Palestinian militants.

Biography

Born in 1966 Abu Sharab commanded the Fatah-linked al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Nablus. The group was very active in the

Second Intifada The Second Intifada ( ar, الانتفاضة الثانية, ; he, האינתיפאדה השנייה, ), also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada ( ar, انتفاضة الأقصى, label=none, '), was a major Palestinian uprising against Israel. ...

, which began in 2000. Abu Sharab was allegedly one of the key players in

Tanzim ''Tanzim'' ( ar, تنظيم ', "Organization") is a militant faction of the Palestinian Fatah movement. Overview The Tanzim militia, founded in 1995 by Yasser Arafat and other Fatah leaders to counter Palestinian Islamism, is widely consider ...

, another armed wing of Fatah.

References

1966 births 2004 deaths Fatah military commanders Assassinated Palestinian people Assassinated military personnel {{Palestine-paramilitary-bio-stub