Three days after his murder Ismail Haniya in Tehran, Israeli and Arab media reported the death of several more senior Hamas figures.
They are two members of the political office of the organization in Gaza and three commanders of the military wing Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades who were trapped in tunnels and killed recently by the Israeli army. The last in time to fall dead was the commander of the brigades in Tulkarm.
Among the executives who lost their lives is Rawhi Mustasathe de facto prime minister of Hamas in Gaza and in charge of the organization’s finances, as well as Sameh al-Shirazin charge of internal security in the Strip and head of an elite group said to be carrying out missions abroad with Turkey as its base of operations.
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These senior figures add to the long list of Hamas political and military leaders who have annihilated Israel in three decades.
One of the first to be killed by the Israeli secret services was Yahia Ayiasknown by the nickname “The Engineer” because he was the primary maker of the bombs that Hamas suicide bombers used to kill nearly 100 Israelis while trying to undermine the Oslo peace accords.
The Shin Bet intercepted a mobile phone given to Agias by a friend and exploded as the “Engineer” was talking to his father in Gaza in 1996.
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It followed the 1997 Mossad fiasco with the failed attempt on Hamas Politburo chief Khaled Meshal on an Amman street on the orders of then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli agents sprayed him in the ear with poison, but two of them were arrested and others fled to the Israeli embassy.
Jordan’s King Hussein threatened to hang them and annul the historic peace agreement he had signed with Israel in 1994. After US President Bill Clinton intervened, Netanyahu ordered the head of the Mossad to give the Jordanians the antidote to the poison. Messal remains in the leadership circle of the organization abroad. In the same bargain, Netanyahu was forced to release 70 Palestinian prisoners, among them Sheikh Yassin, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and the founder of Hamas.
The paraplegic sheikh and spiritual leader of Hamas, Yasinsurvived an aerial bombardment of Gaza in September 2003, but was killed by a rocket fired from an Israeli Apache helicopter into Gaza in March 2004.
Ahmed Yasin
His successor, Abdel Aziz al-Radisi, was murdered in the same manner a month later. Radish’s widow, Jamilathe first woman to enter the political office of Hamas (in 2021), was killed last October by an Israeli bombardment in Gaza.
Abdel Aziz al-Radisi
The Israelis also killed him with a rocket from a helicopter Adnan al-Ghul, also known as the “father of (improvised missiles) Qassam”. Formerly the right-hand man of chief bomber Ayyas, al-Ghul rose to become deputy chief of Hamas’s military wing, the “Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades,” and was killed by an Israeli helicopter along with another senior member of the organization in 2004.
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The organization’s logistics manager and founder of a special unit for the kidnapping of Israelis, Mahmoud al-Mabdouhwas murdered in a luxury Dubai hotel in 2010. According to local authorities, the assailants drugged him, tortured him with electric shocks and suffocated him with a pillow.
Mahmoud al-Mabdouh
A founding member of the military wing and a member of the Hamas politburo was Saleh al-Arouri who was assassinated in a drone strike in Beirut in early 2024.
Last Thursday, Israel officially announced that it had killed the commander of Hamas’ military wing and mastermind of the October 7 attack, Mohammed Daif. Known by the nickname “the visitor”, Deif had survived seven attempts by the Israelis while losing several members of his family to the bombings of the Gaza Strip.
Removing Dave’s name from Israel’s most-wanted terrorists list, Defense Minister Yoav Gallad said the “Bin Laden of Gaza” was killed in mid-July in a bombing in Khan Younis.
Mohammed Daif
Before turning against Hamas, Israeli intelligence had assassinated leading figures of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) abroad, such as Khalil al Wazir (deputy to Yasser Arafat and known by the alias Abu Jihad) with a commando raid in Tunis in 1988, the secretary of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Khalid Nazal in Athens in 1986, as well as the representative of the organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ghassan Kanafani in Beirut in 1972.
The so-called “Red Prince” was assassinated in 1979 by a car bomb in Beirut Ali Hassan Salamehfounder of the Black September organization that bloodied the Munich Olympics by killing 11 Israeli athletes
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