The man of iron missions

One can condemn the aggression on civilians but not every one can do a thing to defend this aggression. Therefore, it is very easy to speak about the history of killing but it is not very easy to make the history of resisting the killing of civilians.

Hani was the man Palestinians need to defend their land and history. In Al-khalil, settlers continually abuse Palestinian children and women. And people in the city condemned that and demonstrated against the crimes of these settlers. However, the Zionist occupation authorities did not stop that aggression; so there was a need for someone to defend the children from being tortured daily by making the settlers understand that their crimes will not go without punishment.

Childhood and Education

Hani Jaber was born on 25 March 1975 in Al-Khalil. He completed his primary and preparatory schools and was arrested during his secondary school shortly before taking his secondary certificate exams.

He lived near the settlement of “Qiryat Arba’.” The settlers from that settlement dealt very cruelly Palestinian residents of Al-Khalil city. People of Hani's area complained a lot because of that cruel treatment but no one heard their complaints.

Punishing the crimes:

After three years of patience, Hani decided to resist this cruelty with his own hands. Hani targeted a famous and well-known settler who committed crimes against the children and the elderly. Hani ambushed this settler with a knife and stabbed him many blows in the head.

Occupation forces searched for the person who killed this settler as if he were a criminal while forgetting the many crimes committed by this settler. They detained Hani in the central prison in Nablus and subjected him to severe torture. After a year, he was sentenced to 198 years.

Again ….. Inside the Prison …    

A female soldier punished the visiting mother of one of the prisoners by forcing her to undress. The mother fainted as a result of this humiliation. The prisoners asked the prison administration to remove this soldier from the prison; but they refused.  After this, Hani decided to kill the commanding officer of the prison. He attacked him and his guards injured them all. The officer was seriously injured. Hani was punished with 35 months of solitary confinement.

His family hasn't visited him for five years. His mother suffers from cancer and wants to see him. But she isn’t allowed to see her son before she dies.

A family of giving

Hani is not the only one from his family to resist the occupation. His father was arrested seven times from 1967 to 1987. And four members from his family were martyred during the resistance against the occupation forces.