Samer Saadi (ca 1975 – 29 September 2005, age 30)[1][2] was a leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Jenin.
[5] The week prior to the election, Israel had conducted nearly 100 raids on West Bank towns.
[6] On the day of the election Saadi was killed in a gun battle[6] during an Israeli incursion into Jenin in the West Bank, along with two other Palestinian militants.
[7][1] In response, Mahmoud Abbas asked the United States to intervene in an effort to "take action to stop these operations that could provoke a collapse of the situation".
[6] Later the same day, Zakaria Zubeidi, leader of the Al-Aqsa Brigades in Jenin, announced that his group's six-month ceasefire was now at an end.