Mohammed Samer Mahmoud Jaber[a] (1998 – 29 August 2024), better known by his nom de guerre Abu Shujaa,[b] was a Palestinian militant from the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
[7] He began his participation in anti-Israel militant activities at an early age, and was arrested multiple times by both Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
[5] He used to be personally aligned with Fatah but left the party and joined Palestinian Islamic Jihad after the start of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in October 2023.
[4][8] The 26 July 2024 Tulkarm confrontations were sparked after the security forces of the Palestinian Authority attempted to arrest Jaber while he was hospitalized after being injured by an explosive device.
[9] On 29 August 2024, the YAMAM (Israel's National Counter-Terror Unit)[10][11] killed Jaber and four other militants during fighting inside and around a mosque in Tulkarm, part of the ongoing large-scale Israeli military operation in the northern West Bank.