Israeli Counter-Terrorism:
Targeted Killings of Terrorists

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Hithem Ziad Ibrahim Masshal

IAF aircraft targeted Masshal in Gaza. Masshal was directly responsible for the April 17 firing of two rockets toward Eilat from the Sinai Peninsula.  According the IDF, Masshal was also considered a terror expert in Gaza, regularly helping Salafi and Jihadi elements in their quest to fire rockets at Israel.

Ahmad Jabari;
Hab’s Hassan Us Msamch;
Muhammad Abu-Jala;
Khaled Shaer;
Osama Kadi;
Muhammas Kalb;
Ramz Harb;
Yunis Shaluf

During Operation Pillar of Defense, the IDF targeted senior leaders in Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the main terror groups operating in the Gaza Strip and firing rockets at Israeli civilian areas.  The operation commenced with the targeting of Jabari, the head of Hamas' military wing, as he was riding in a car in northern Gaza. Jabari was integral to the planning of Gilad Shalit's kidnapping in 2005 and helped carry out numerous other attacks. Hamas operatives Abu-Jala and Shaer were also commanders integral to the rocket launching and anti-tank divisions in Hamas. Kalb was a senior operative in the Hamas aerial defense operations and Harb was an Islamic Jihad senior operative in propaganda in Gaza city. Shaluf was responsible for rocket fire on Eilat several months ago.

Ezzedine Abu Nasira;
Ahmad Fatayer

Hamas

The IDF striked Nasira and Fatayer near central Gaza for having fired a rocket into Israel that landed in the Eshkol regional council.

Hisham Abd al-Karim Saidani;
Ashraf Sabah

Tawhid wal-Jihad

IAF aircraft attacked two motorcyclists who were affiliated with global jihad networks in the Gaza Strip

October 13, 2012

Hisham al-Saedini;
Fayek Abu Jazar;
Yasser Mohammad al-Atal

Mujahedeen Shura Council;
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Saedini was the leader of the Salafist group responsible for dozens of rocket attacks on Israel in the past six weeks. The IDF said the group was behind a January 2009 attack that killed an Israeli soldier and seriously wounded another; and that they were "planning a complex attack to be carried out along the Sinai border" in coordination with Salafists inside Egypt.

Anis Abu Mahmoud el-Anin;
Ashraf Mahmoud Salah

Anis was in the final stages of preparing an attack against Israeli civilians. In the past, Anis was involved in a number of attempted terror attacks that included smuggling explosive devices into Israel, in addition to directing certain terror activities in Judea and Samaria. Salah had admitted to transferring terrorists into Egypt in order to carry out a suicide attack in Israel; he was also involved in the buying and selling of weapons.

Nadi Okhal

Targeted by the Israeli air force in the Tel Sultan neighborhood in southern Gaza. Okhal was allegedly involved in a June terrorist attack at ther Israel-Egypt border that killed one Israeli.

Zuhir Mussah Ahmed Kaisi;
Mahmud Ahmed Hananni

Responsible for planning a combined terror attack that was to take place via Sinai in the coming days. Part of the terror infrastructure used to execute attacks via the Sinai Peninsula, and the Israel- Egypt border.

Targeted due to his involvement in the planning of terrorist attack on the Egypt-Israel border. Was also involved in previous terror attacks including a 2007 bombing in Eilat in which 3 civilians were killed.

Islamic Jihad

Commander/Munitions Expert

In retaliation for launching rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip earlier that day.

Khaled Sahmoud

Popular Resistance Committees

Military Commander

Killed while preparing to launch mortar rounds from Gaza into Southern Israel. The PRC claim that Salmoud and his cell were able to fire five mortars before being killed.

Ismael al-Asmar

Islamic Jihad

Operative

Involved in smuggling weapons to Gaza and in militant activity in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Targeted for shooting off kassam rockets moments before the strike

Popular Resistance Committees

Gaza Commander;
Military Wing Commander;
Senior Operative

The Popular Resistance Committee was said to have planned and staged the deadly, coordinated terrorist attacks against targets in southern Israel that resulted in the death of 7 Israelis - 6 civilians and 1 soldier.

Strike aimed at the terrorist squad planning to kidnap Israelis in the Sinai Peninsula and Israel during the upcoming Passover holiday.

According to the IDF the cell was responsible for firing rockets into Israel.

Involved in the planning of a terror attack in Israel.

Army of Islam (al-Qaeda)

Senior Terrorist

Affiliated with al-Qaida and involved in the 2006 abduction of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.

Hamas

Senior Commander

Air strike

Awad Abu Nasir

Islamic Jihad

Senior Field Commander

Known to have been behind dozens of IED and gunfire attacks against IDF soldiers.

Ma'ataz Dagmesh;
Mahmud Shandi;
Muhamad Asaliya

Army of Islam (al-Qaeda)

Senior Terror Operatives

Involved in recent attempts to execute a large-scale terror attack against Israeli targets. Dagmesh was the leader and planner of the thwarted terror attack. Asaliya served as the organization's senior terror attacks planner.

Nafez Mansour

Involved in the abduction of Gilad Shalit

Ibrahim Abu Olba

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Senior Commander

IAF aircraft struck in northern Gaza

Abu Said Qarmout

Popular Resistance Committees

Leader of Northern Gaza

IAF airstrike in Gaza

Ahmad Abu Sharia

Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

Senior Commander

Responsible for firing rockets at Israel, was hit by an IAF missile as he walked in the street.

One Unidentified

Killed along with his wife when the IAF targeted his car as they traveled in Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip.

Nidal Amudi

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

Senior Operative

Involved in Qassam rocket attacks on Sderot.

Majed Harazin

Islamic Jihad

Senior Commander in West Bank/Gaza

In charge of rocket squads firing at Israel and was on Israel’s wanted list for nine years

Mubarak al-Hassanat

Israeli aircraft attacked a car in central Gaza, destroying the vehicle

Hussan Khalil al-Hur

Fired Qassam rockets at Sderot earlier in the day, wounding three people.

Member of militant Qassam cell

Imad Shabanah

Hamas

Senior Commander

Commanded rocket manufacturing cell.

Abdel Khader Habib

Hamas

Field Commander

IAF airstrike in Gaza City

Ahmed Awad

Hamas

Head of Qassam Rocket unit

Killed along with another Hamas member when missiles struck their car as it traveled in the southern Gaza Strip.

One Unidentified

IAF aircraft fired missiles at a car in Gaza City, killing at least one member involved in Qassam rocket attacks.

Three Unidentified

Hamas local commander and two other operatives killed when an IAF-fired missile struck their car in Beit Lahiya.

Osama Attili:
Mohammed Atik

IAF airstrike in Jenin

Ismail al-Masri

IAF airstrike

Hamoud Wadiya;
Shawki Sayklia.

Islamic Jihad

Senior Operatives

Top rocket launchers

Jamal Abu Samhadana

Popular Resistance Committees

Senior Leader

Member of Salah al-Din Military Brigades, one of the most wanted individuals by Israel. IAF attack in Rafah.

Majdi Hamed;
Eiman Assiylia

Popular Resistance Committees

Senior Terrorists

IAF jet fired missiles into a car traveling in northern Gaza City

Mohammed Dahdoh

IAF airstrike

Munir Mahmed Sukhar;
Iyad Abu Shalouf.

IAF airstrike

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades

Senior Field Commanders

IAF airstrike

Hassan Asfour;
Rami Hanouna

Responsible for firing Qassam rockets from Gaza into Israel. IAF airstrike in Gaza City

Adnan Bustan

“Rocket engineer,” IAF airstrike

Sayid Abu-Gadian

Islamic Jihad

Senior Militant

IAF airstrike

Four Unidentified

Popular Resistance Committees

Active Members

IAF airstrike

Ayad Nagar;
Ziyad Qaddas

IAF missile struck a house in the northern Gaza Strip

Popular Resistance Committees

Senior Commander

IAF aircraft fired a missile into a moving vehicle in the Gaza Strip

Hassan Madhoun;
Fawzi Abu Kara

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
Senior Leader;

Hamas
Rocket Expert

Airstrike in Gaza

Shadi Mehana

Islamic Jihad

Senior Commander, Northern Gaza

IAF fired a rocket into a vehicle in Gaza

Islamic Jihad

Senior Operative

IAF missile strike in the Gaza Strip

Hamas

Commander

Involved in numerous infiltrations into Israeli communities, the firing of mortar shells at Israeli targets, and the detonation of tunnels and explosive devices. Killed by an IDF sniper

Four Unidentified

Hamas

Senior Operatives

IAF struck a vehicle carrying the men and numerous Qassam rockets in Gaza city.

Adnan Al-Ghoul;
Imad al-Baas

Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Bashir Dabash;
Zarees Alareer

Islamic Jihad

Heads of Military Arm in Gaza

IDF missile strike.

Ali al-Shaer

Popular Resistance Committees

Senior Member

Israeli helicopter fired a missile at a car east of the city of Khan Younis. The intended target, Mohammed Abu Nasira, a commander of the group, survived.

Izz Eldine Subhi Sheik Khalil

Killed when his car exploded in Damascu. Israel would not confirm or deny responsibility, but was believed to have carried out the targeted killing.

Nabil al-Saedi;
Rabah Zaqout

Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Khaled Abu Shamiyeh

Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Mahmud Abu Khalifa

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade

Commander in Jenin

Killed along with two of his assistants in an Israeli airstrike.

Four Unidentified

Hamas;
Islamic Jihad

Israeli missile strike in Gaza City; main target, Hamas leader Ahmed Jabari, escaped with light injuries.

Amr Abu Suta;
Zaki Abu Rakha.

Ahmed Abu Reish Brigade

A helicopter strike

Hazem Rahim

Islamic Jihad

Local Commander

Seized the body parts of Israeli soldiers killed when a roadside bomb destroyed their armored personnel carrier on May 11. Helicopter strike

Nayef Abu Sharkh;
Jafer el-Massari;
Fadi Bagit;
Sheikh Ibrahim

Fatah Tanzim
Nablus Commander;

Hamas
Senior Commander;

Islamic Jihad
Senior Commanders in the West Bank

IDF ambush in Nablus

Khalil Marshud

IAF helicopter gunship strike

Wael Nassar

Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Imad Mohammed Janajra

Hamas

Senior Commander, West Bank

Shot by Israeli security forces as he approached the village of Taluza, outside Nablus.

Hamas

Organizational Leader

IAF helicopter-fired missiles slammed into his car not far from his home in central Gaza City

Hamas

Organizational Leader and Founder

Israeli missile strike in Gaza

Nidal Salfiti;
Shadi Muhana

Israeli missile strike in Gaza.

Tarad Jimali;
Ibrahim Diri:
Omar Hassan

Hamas

Senior Members

Israeli missile strike

Mahmoud Juda;
Aiyman Dahduh;
Amin Dahduh

Islamic Jihad

Senior Commanders

Israeli helicopter gunships killed threefugitives riding in a car in Gaza.

Aziz Mahmoud Shami

Islamic Jihad

Military Wing Leader

Israeli missile strike.

Makled Hamid

Islamic Jihad

Local Military Wing Commander

Israeli missile strike on a car in Gaza City

Mustafa Sabah

Hamas

Bombmaker

Mastermind of three attacks against Merkava tanks in the Gaza Strip was killed in an IAF strike in Gaza City

Khader Houssre

Air Force helicopters fired four missiles at a car in the Gaza Strip

Abdullah Akel;
Farid Mayet

Air Force helicopters fired four missiles at a van in the Gaza Strip

Hamdi Khalaq

Hamas

Military Wing Member

Air Force helicopter fired a missile

Khaled Massoud

Hamas

Missile Developer

Active in the development of the Kassam Rocket, Israeli missile strike in Gaza City.

Walid el Hams;
Ahmed Eshtwi;
Ahmed Abu Halala; Muhammad Abu Lubda

Hamas

Activists

IDF helicopter strike.

Ismail Abu Shanab

Hamas

Senior Leader

Israeli airstrike.

Jihad Srour;
Yasser Taha

Hamas

Activists

missiles fired from an air force helicopter.

Tito Massoud;
Soffil Abu Nahez

missiles fired from an air force helicopter.

Iyad el-Bek

Hamas

Aide to Military Leader

Aide to former Hamas military leader Salah Shehade. Air Force helicopters fired three missiles at a car

Nidal Salameh

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Local Military Leader

Four missiles fired from an air force helicopter at a car in the southern Gaza Strip

Yasser Alemi

Fatah Tanzim

An undercover Border Police unit shot and killed the Israeli fugitive in Tulkarm.

Mahmoud Zatma

Islamic Jihad

Senior Commander, Bomb Maker (30)

Missile fired by an IAF Apache helicopter hit the car he was driving in Gaza City.

Said al-Arabid

Hamas

Commander

Helicopter missiles struck the car in Gaza

Ibrahim Makdme

Hamas

Second-in-Command of Military Wing

Israeli attack helicopters fired missiles

Shaman Hassan Subah;
Mustafa Kash

Killed in an IDF ambush near Jenin.

Alah Sabbagh;
Imad Nasrti

Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade
Local Leader;

Hamas
Local Leader

Killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Jenin refugee camp.

Assim Sawafta

Hamas

Military Wing RingLeader (19)

Killed by an undercover army unit.

Nasser Asida

Hamas

West Bank Commander

Shot and killed by IDF soldiers of the Kfir Brigade

Salah Shehada

Hamas

Military Commander in Gaza

Israeli military aircraft rocketed his house.
Unfortunately, fourteen others, including his family, were killed in the blast.

Jihad Amerin

Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade

Leader in the Gaza Strip

Killed in a car blast.

Muhaned Taher;
Imad Draoza

Hamas

Master Bomber;
Deputy Bomb Commander

Marwan Zaloum;
Samir Abu Rajoub

Fatah Tanzim

Hebron Militia Leader;
Senior Aide, Member of Force 17

Zaloum was believed to be responsible for numerous shooting attacks and bombings, including the March 2001 killing of Shalhevet Pass, a 10-month-old infant, in a sniper attack in Hebron. Israeli helicopter strike.

Mutasen Hamad;
Maher Balbiti

Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade

Field Commanders

Hamad was considered a top bomb maker. Israeli attack helicopter fired a missile

Abdel Rahman Ghadal

Missile attack on his home in Gaza City.

Mohand Said Muniyer Diriya, Fawzi Hamdi Mustafa Maher, Oman Kaidan

Force 17, Tanzim

The IDF targeted the threein Ramallah.

Five Unknown

Killed in a strike on a car carrying the terrorists..

Adli Hamdan

Hamas

Head of Military Wing

Killed in Khan Yunis when an IAF Apache helicopter fired two missiles at his car. Hamdan was believed to have been involved in an attack that left four soldiers IDF soldiers dead, and in the manufacture of mortars.

Ankilled Jasser Samaro, Nassim Abu Rus,
Yousef Suraj,
Karim Masarja

Hamas

Regional Bomb Preparation Experts

IDF special operations unit killed the men who were on a list of wanted terrorists Israel submitted on to the Palestinian Authority.

Raed Mahmoud Karmi

Tanzim

Tulkarm Commander

Killed when his car blew up. Israel had asked the PA to imprison Karmi, but Arafat refused. Terrorists under his command murdered at least six Israelis.

Mahmoud Abu Hanoud,
Ayman Hashaykah

Hamas

Senior Commander in West Bank,
Deputy to Senior Commander

IAF helicopter fired missiles at the car. Hanoud was convicted by the Palestinian Authority of leading an unauthorized military cell and sentenced to a12-year jail term. He was later released.

Mohammed Hassan Reihan

Hamas

Senior Leader

Killed in a gunfight with Israeli forces at his West Bank home in Tel. Reihan was wanted for the 1998 killing of two Israelis.

Yasser Atsida,
Fahmi Abu Aisha

Hamas

Military Wing Members

Helicopter gunships attack a car in the West Bank city of Tulkarm.

Jamil Jaddala

Killed by Israeli security forces in Hebron in a helicopter missile attack.

Atif Abayyat

Fatah

Military Wing Member

Killed along with two other people when a car exploded in Beit Sahour. This followed the assassination of Israeli Cabinet Minister Rechavam Zeevi by the PFLP.

Iyad al Akhras

Killed when an explosive went off inside his house

Ahmad Marshoud

Killed in a car bomb explosion in the West Bank town of Nablus.

Abed Rahman Hamad

Hamas

Military Wing Senior Member

Shot by snipers at his home in Qalqilya.

Abu Ali Mustafa

PFLP

Commander

Israeli helicopter fired a missile through the window of his Ramallah office.

Imad Abu Sneneh

Tanzim

Local Commander

Shot in Hebron

Jamal Mansour,
Omar Mansour

Hamas

Senior Leaders

Killed by Israeli helicopter gunships.

Massoud Ayyad

Force 17

Lieutenant Colonel

Killed when Israeli helicopter gunships fired four missiles into his car as he drove on the outskirts of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Thabet Ahmad Thabet

Killed by IDF soldiers. Thabet was a high ranking member of Fatah.

Mahmoud Mugrabi

Killed by IDF soldiers while reportedly planting a roadside bomb near Bethlehem. Mugrabi's name was on a list of ten reputed terrorists that the IDF had targeted for killing.

Ibrahim Abdel Karim Bani

Killed when a bomb exploded in the car he was driving. Israeli sources insinuated Bani was transporting explosives that detonated prematurely, but PA security forces arrested Bani's cousin, who reportedly confessed to tipping off the IDF.

Jamal Abdel Raziq

Tanzim

Senior Member

Killed by IDF forces along with three other Tanzim members.

Hussein Abayat

Local leader of the intifada was killed when an Israeli helicopter gunship rocketed his car near Bethlehem.

Yehiya Ayyash

Hamas

Bombmaker, Engineer

Bombmaker known as "The Engineer." A bomb is planted in the cellular phone, he is killed when it explodes in Gaza.

Islamic Jihad

Chief

Shikaki had been behind a January 1995 bombing near Netanya that killed 21 soldiers. Mossad agents assassinate him on a street in Sleima, Malta.

Abbas Musawi

Hezbollah

Secretary-General

Two Israeli assault helicopters attack a convoy in Lebanon and use missiles to destroy the car

PLO

Number 2 Man

Commandos shoot him in his Tunis bed

Black September

Operations Chief

Coordinated the Munich Massacre; killed by a remote-control bomb in Beirut

Mohammed Boudiada

PFLP

Head of European Operations

Car explodes in Paris.

Zaid Muchassi

Explosion in his Athens hotel room.

Kamal Nasser;
Mahmoud Yussuf Najjer;
Kemal Adwan

PLO

Official Spokesman;
"Foreign Minister"
Director of Sabotage

Involed in the Munich Massacre; murdered in their Beirut apartment

Basil al-Kubaisi

PFLP

Terrorist

Involved in the Munich Massacre; gunned down on a Paris street

Hussein Al Bashr

A bomb explodes in the hotel room in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Mahmoud Hamshar

Black September

Field Commander

Coordinator of the Munich Massacre is killed in Paris when his telephone explodes.

Wael Zwaiter

Unknown

Cousin of Yasser Arafat, is shot dead in the lobby of his Rome apartment building.

Bassam Abou Shari

PFLP

Information Officer

Package explodes in his hands.

Ghassan Kanafani

PFLP

Central Command Member

Recruited the Japanese terrorists who killed 27 people and wounded another 80 in May at the Lod Airport in Israel. Booby-trapped car explodes

Mustafa Hafaz

Egypt's commander of intelligence in Gaza

Hafaz was responsible for sending Palestinian terrorists into southern Israel. A double agent delivered a booby-trapped book