Amid the labyrinth of covered markets and ancient stone streets in Nablus’s Old City, music blasts from a barber shop.
The tune takes the melody of an old Palestinian folk song and adapts it for much darker times. The lyrics glorify the deaths of those resisting Israeli occupation, including “Wadee the Lion,” who, as the words go, lived with “his hand on the trigger.”
“Wadee” is Wadee al-Houh, one of the former leaders of an emerging group of young Palestinian militants called “the Lions’ Den.”
Al-Houh was 31 years old when he and four other members of the Lions’ Den militia were killed during an Israeli Defence
