A senior member of the Palestinian terrorist group Lion's Den was reportedly killed in an explosion in the West Bank's city of Nablus on Sunday, with the organization blaming Israel for the attack.
Tamer Kilani's motorcycle exploded at 1:30 a.m. in what the Lion's Den labeled an "assassination," accusing Israel for attached a bomb to the vehicle. The group threatened a "harsh, agonizing and painful revenge" for his death.
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Surveillance camera footage released by the group shortly after the incident showed someone placing an explosive on the motorcycle, which exploded when Kilani walked by it in the Kasba hotbed of terrorism, the Kasba at the city center. Palestinians say the perpetrator of the killing was a collaborator with Israel, which considers Kilani a wanted terrorist for the recent spate of attacks on Israelis in recent weeks, particularly in the northern Samaria area, including the deadly drive by shooting of IDF soldier Ido Baruch and the dispatching of a terrorist to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, which was thwarted by security forces.
Kilani was known as a prominent member of the Nablus-based group, which took responsibility for several shooting attacks in Judea and Samaria over the past few weeks. According to the organization's statement his funeral will be held on Sunday.
Kilani, 33, has previously been locked up in Israeli prisons for his involvement in terrorism.
In mid-October Israeli troops arrested another Lion's Den member, Hamza Al-Azzi, although the organization reportedly denied that one of its operatives was apprehended. Some of the group's members had prior affiliations with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
i24NEWS contributed to this report.
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