A `` prominent Salafist sheikh '' , Dai al-Islam Shahhal , said Telling Sunnis in Tripoli would take Creating security in their own hands going Self_motion forward .

Encouraged by rural sheikh Qasim al-Ahmad , the urban notables of Nablus , Hebron and the Jerusalem-Jaffa area did not carry out Military_operation Ibrahim Pasha 's orders to conscript , disarm and tax the local peasantry .

an alliance of islamic jihad and the popular resistance Control committees claimed Statement responsibility for the attack Attack , stating Statement that it was carried out Action in reprisal for the assassinations of hamas leaders sheikh ahmad yassin and abdelaziz rantisi by the israeli army some weeks earlier .