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'''Samer Saadi''' (ca 1975 – 29 September 2005, age 30)<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=September 29, 2005 |title=Police Disperse Some 50 W. Bank Settlers in Hebron Clash |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2005-09-29/ty-article/police-disperse-some-50-w-bank-settlers-in-hebron-clash/0000017f-f563-d5bd-a17f-f77b0fe30000 |work=Haaretz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Chronological Review of Events/September 2005 - DPR review MONTHLY MEDIA MONITORING REVIEW |url=https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-196496/ |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights Chronological Review of Events Relating to the Question of Palestine |language=en-US}}</ref> was a leader of the [[Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades]] in [[Jenin]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Three Palestinian fighters shot dead |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2005/9/29/three-palestinian-fighters-shot-dead |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref>

On 29 September 2005, the West Bank was voting in the third round of local elections.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Palestinian local elections (29 Sept. 2005) - NDI International Election Observer Delegation statement - NDI press release/Non-UN document |url=https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-202274/ |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights Chronological Review of Events Relating to the Question of Palestine |language=en-US}}</ref> The elections were the first contested Palestinian elections since [[Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip|Israel began withdrawing from the Gaza Strip]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Palestinians vote in local elections |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2005/9/29/palestinians-vote-in-local-elections |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref> The week prior to the election, Israel had conducted nearly 100 raids on West Bank towns.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=McGreal |first=Chris |date=2005-09-29 |title=Palestinian elections marred as Israel kills three more activists |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/israel |access-date=2024-11-13 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

On the day of the election Saadi was killed in a gun battle<ref name=":1" /> during an [[Israel]]i incursion into Jenin in the [[West Bank]], along with two other Palestinian militants.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 29, 2005 |title=Israelis kill 3 militants in West Bank |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/world/africa/israelis-kill-3-militants-in-west-bank.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> 

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".<ref name=":1" /> 

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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2005-09-29 |title=Militants 'end West Bank truce' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4292448.stm |access-date=2024-11-13 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip]]
* [[Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2005]]
* [[September 23, 2005, Jabalia Camp incident]]

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== External links ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051028073759/http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=9602 Archived Al Jazeera coverage of the event], with a picture of Saadi
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