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A member of a United Nations sapper unit (L) walks past a member of Hamas security forces as they work on neutralizing an unexploded ordnance remaining from Zionist offensive last year, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 10, 2010.
Nabil Fadil Abed A'al
- The Silent man
- Sheik Redwan neighborhood
- 2007-09-08
Name: Nabil Fadil Abed A'al
Hometown: Gaza city
Resident: Sheik Redwan neighborhood
Birth
Nabil was born in April 12th,1981 in Al Redwan neighborhood in Gaza city. His bravery appeared since he was a child. He was brought up in a family known with its virtue and honesty. He finished his primary studying in Al Farabi school. He finished his prep. studying in Al Karmil high school.
He joined to the Islamic university in the faculty of commerce. His younger sister said " my brother was active in everything; his speeches, his actions and his character". She added "since his childhood, he was Brilliant. He participated in the competitions and he gained many prizes for his intelligence".
Loving man
He was careful to satisfy his parents, especially his mother. He was joke with them and make his best to make his parents happy. Despite he was very busy man, he was taking his wife and his children many times in the summer days to the sea as a picnic.
Marriage
In 2002, Nabil decided to marry. He married a humble girl. He has two girls, Raghad, 3years, and Tasnim, one year. His wife talked to us and she was crying " he was a kind husband. He was doing some home works to help me". She added "he was doing his personal needs by himself, he didn’t use to bother me. He was sitting with his girls and play with them each attendance in our house ".
His sister, Hiyam said " Nabil's apartment is next to my apartment, he was asking me to prepare the breakfast and he came to prepare with me. Sometimes, he was preparing the breakfast and didn’t eat till I came".
The sniper
Nabil refused to let the Zionist settlers live peacefully in his occupied land. So he joined to Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades in 2003. His best friend was the martyr Maslama Al Araj.
He participated in all the Brigades missions in his area. But the main mission to him is firing the Qassam rockets at the Zionist settlements. Abu Musab, one his best friends, said that Nabil's friends was calling him "the airman". He gained this nick name because of his activity.
Military courses
He engaged in a primary course in the beginning of his joint in the Brigades. Then he joined to advance course. He was brilliant in sniping his targets. He was sniping the targets from AK47 and from his Revolver. A Special Unit in resistance was established in Al Redwan area ;He was the fifth member. The mission of this unit was to execute specific actions against the Zionist army.
For his commitment of his work in the Brigades. His leadership named him to join to the military academy. He received many courses in it. He achieved the first grade in the sniping field in Gaza city. so he became the moderator of the sniping unit in the Redwan neighborhood. Then he became a trainer to the military courses in the Brigades.
Invasions
He joined to the security and protection device in the interior ministry. He worked as a bodyguard in the interior ministry. Then he became the moderator of the bodyguards. He was injured when tried to protect the interior minister in clashes.
In the invasions, he was insisting on to participate in the dangerous areas in the resistance operations. He was waiting the Zionist tanks and vehicles a long till it came and defend. He became very happy when a Zionist settler killed in one of his operations.
Martyrdom
In September 8th, 2007. His wife said " he woke up and his face was shining. I wondered. I didn’t see him like that before". She added "We were invited to have the dinner meal in my father house then we visited his sister.
When we back to our house, the mujahideen called him. He weared his clothes and hurried out"… She cried and said " I heard the mosques mourns him". The wife was speaking when her children beside her , she cried at each stage she reached in her story about her husband and hug her children as if she missed her life and her children's future.
Al Qassam Brigades mourned him and said in its statement that Nabil was martyred in doing his national duty.
