
Better there than Israel.
Via LWJ:
A Palestinian jihadist military trainer and commander who was a member of the Tawhid and Jihad Group in Jerusalem and who previously served with Hamas was killed in Syria while fighting for the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda’s affiliate in the country.
The Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center, “the official source for releases from the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) in the Environs of Jerusalem,” according to the SITE Intelligence Group, released a video to jihadist forums on March 12 about Muhammad Ahmed Qanitah.
Qanitah, who is also known as Abu Abdul Rahman, was killed in a rocket attack in December while fighting for the Al Nusrah Front during the siege of the airport in Aleppo, according to the videotape.
The biography in the video stated that Qanitah “grew up with a religious family and was raised to hate the ‘Jewish enemy,'” according to a summary of the video by the SITE Intelligence Group. “He learned martial arts and threw stones at the enemies and was injured when he was 12 years old.”
The narrator of the video said Qanitah joined Hamas’ Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas in 2003. “He came to know its leaders and worked with them and trained its fighters, and he participated in many jihadi actions and attacks against the settlements.” He fought against the Israeli military during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in 2009, “and he continued participating in al-Qassam Brigades and the ‘cleansing’ of Gaza to live under Shariah-based governance,” the SITE summary said.
