Jenin – On a radio, someone was shouting in a voice full of joy, "Operation Commando Youth... An operation near Ramallah, they grew up young, an operation operation." Immediately, the faces of a group of fighters who rested inside a small room filled with pictures of their comrades, and on one of its walls a plaque bearing the names of dozens of martyrs from the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.

"This is another victory on top of the victory we won yesterday (Monday)," said Mujahid, a Jenin Brigade fighter, a reference to the shooting attack carried out by two Palestinians near the settlement of Eli between Nablus and Ramallah in the central West Bank on Tuesday evening, which killed four settlers and seriously wounded others.

The operation came after a bloody day in the city and refugee camp of Jenin on Monday, which led to the death of 6 of its residents and the injury of dozens of them, in one of the most violent Israeli military attacks in years.

But Mujahid, a member of the Jenin Brigade's monitoring unit, believes with his comrades that the results of Monday's battle between the Israeli occupation forces and the camp fighters represented a real victory for the Palestinians, as the resistance "inflicted heavy losses" on the ranks of the occupation forces.

The son of the battalion, which has fought dozens of clashes with the Israeli army in the past two years, says that "Israel did everything to eliminate the resistance fighters in the Jenin camp, but it came out with the image of what it calls 'the strongest army in the world.'"

A fighter from the engagement unit of the Jenin battalion carries his weapon a day after a violent invasion in the camp (Al Jazeera Net)

Special Forces Detection

Ain Mujahid does not lose sight of a television screen linked to a large number of surveillance cameras and reveals large parts of the camp, its streets and lanes. "With these cameras, we discovered that the special forces had entered the Jabriyat neighborhood located at the upper end of the camp, and immediately the clash with them began, and the occupation army was surprised by what it saw here and what we had prepared for," he says while watching the screen with great concentration.

Mujahid and his fellow resistance fighters consider the surveillance devices one of the most important methods used by the battalion to protect its fighters by detecting the continuous attempts to storm by the occupation army, especially the special forces.

The Jenin battalion and the camp's fighters are constantly evolving themselves, taking advantage of any mistake that may occur at the time of the incursion and when clashing with the occupation forces, to learn from it and overcome it in the future. The battalion divides its fighters into more than one unit, each with its own work that is separate from and complementary to the others.


Battalion Units

"We are here as a surveillance unit, and we work for 24 hours on the 'groups' system; each group receives 6 hours of surveillance, thanks to God, the cameras are distributed in the most accurate and important places in the camp," Mujahid said.

Members of the observation unit monitor any strange movement on the outskirts of the camp and at its entrances, and monitor any suspicious vehicle that may arrive at the camp, sending a quick signal to the monitoring units, which activate the siren and alert the resistance fighters in other units to take their positions immediately.

In addition to the observation unit, the battalion established the monitoring and ligament units, the engagement unit, and the engineering and explosives unit, which succeeded in the recent incursion by detonating an explosive device with a large military vehicle and completely disabling it.

The resisters say that the device used in the detonation of the vehicle, Monday, is new and manufactured inside the camp by explosives engineers and was named "Tamer" after the founder of the engineering and explosives unit, the martyr Tamer Al-Nashrati.

Jenin Battalion fighters try to practice sniping and engagement operations whenever they have the opportunity. Mujahid says the training requires a well-thought-out plan to maintain the security and safety of the resisters. This also applies to external operations carried out by the battalion's operatives outside the camp, such as firing at Israeli checkpoints.

The fighting capabilities and methods of the Jenin Brigade evolved with the expansion of the incursions targeting its resistance fighters (Al-Jazeera)

Evolution of engagement strategy

Abu al-Saeed, a fighter in his twenties, describes to Al Jazeera Net the evolution of the resistance strategy in Jenin camp according to the expansion and increase of Israeli incursions.

"Certainly, we as resistance fighters were ready to storm, and we got used to it when Israeli forces entered at any moment," he said. "I am talking now and I do not rule out an incursion, this is something we are used to in the camp, and the storming of the two was big but did not surprise us," he said.

Abu al-Saeed recounts that "the clash lasted for about 11 hours, and from the moment the special forces entered at four o'clock in the morning, we were informed through the monitoring unit, and the confrontation began, which the occupation forces did not reckon with." "By Israel's recognition, the battalion's steadfastness and strength were clear and significant."

Palestinian resistance fighters clashed with the Israeli occupation forces on several axes on the outskirts of the camp and in several lanes inside it, and during the battle instructions were delivered directly to the fighters via radio devices to change their whereabouts, focus the shooting at a point where the soldiers are located, or withdraw whenever necessary.

Passers-by through the camp's alleys and alleys can see more than one site where fighters have barricaded themselves behind sandbags that have formed a cover of Israeli bullets. The groups that are stationed here are called ligament units.

Near the street where the Israeli occupation vehicle was blown up, Abu al-Sa'id arrived accompanied by a fighter to perform the duty of congratulating a prisoner who was released today from the occupation prisons.

Apache bombing

Carrying his weapon, Abu al-Saeed narrates the details of confronting the occupation on Monday, and says, "What is new in this storming is not the number of military vehicles stormed, nor the weapons, nor the length of its duration, but the occupation's use of Apache aircraft, but we are a generation that began to be aware of the invasion of 2002 and its remnants, and we do not exclude anything from Israel, and we cannot be surprised by any reaction they make in front of the resistance."

The resisters believe that the inability of the occupation to transfer the wounded soldiers in the battle of Monday, and the withdrawal of its vehicles, which were completely disabled by the explosive devices that exploded in it, prompted it to use planes and bomb one of the sites in the Jabriyat neighborhood near the camp, a weapon to which Israel returns more than 20 years after the invasion and bombing of the camp in 2002.

"With God's help, I protected the resistance fighters who were clashing from a distance with the occupation forces when Apache planes bombed a site very close to their position," Abu al-Saeed said. "In every incursion, there will be a new occupation of resistance, as the battalion is growing, its elements are increasing, and its combat capabilities are developing, and this is evident in every battle with the enemy," he added.

"I am a fighter in the battalion and there are hundreds of young people like me, and the battalion's approach is clear and continuous and our goal is liberation, and its idea is extended thanks to God, as you can see in Palestinian cities, towns and villages, new resistance people are born, such as Jenin camp," he added.

Resistance Weapon in the Jenin Battalion Surveillance Unit (Al Jazeera Net)

Popular incubator

The battalion considers the people's embrace of its fighters and the formation of the Palestinian street as a popular incubator that has the most important reasons for its steadfastness and strength. On the other hand, the battalion seeks to follow up on the affairs of the people in the camp, especially those who have been subjected to Israeli attacks, or who have lost their relatives in repeated raids.

"The battalion's decision was for people to go down to their interests and continue their lives and not to disrupt them, because life must continue in its normal form, and the battle is open with the occupation army and long," Abu al-Saeed said.

Then he smiles and recalls, "On Monday, there is a lack of love among the fighters, but the children of halal are many, they helped us transfer love and deliver it to those who need it from the mujahideen." Love means "the bullets used by resisters."

Ready for a whole month

The battalion's fighters confirm that they are ready to face any large-scale incursion threatened by Israel, and that its preparations reach to confront the occupation army for more than a full month if it thinks of invading the camp, for example.

"The fighters in the camp from all factions are a force that Israel fears, and it can make a difference in the equation of fighting with it. The field unites all the mujahideen from any faction."

On Monday, the Jenin battalion managed to damage about 8 Israeli military vehicles, some of them immune to bullets, and wounded at least 5 soldiers who were inside one of them, while Israel killed 6 Palestinians and wounded about 100 others, including 15 in danger during a raid that began at dawn and lasted until <> p.m.