By Steve Tenre
Published yesterday at 11:31 p.m., updated yesterday at 11:51 p.m.
An undated photo shows Palestinian Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, who was arrested by Palestinian police in May 2000, according to an Israeli television report. HO/AFP
The approximately sixty-year-old leader of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades escaped several assassination attempts. Israel has been pursuing him for years.
Mohammed Deïf is an elusive man. Despite his status as public enemy number one, he continued to evade assassination attempts by the Israeli Army (IDF) for many years. But the terrorist attack by his men, who killed women and children and sometimes beheaded them as in the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, could well change the situation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a “massive attack” on Hamas that would wipe out the Islamist organization for decades.
To this end, the Israeli security services will once again target the sixty-year-old architect of the Palestinian movement at all costs. The leader of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas considered a terrorist organization by the European Union, the United States or Japan, is undoubtedly the author of his men’s multiple incursions into Israel.
Saturday, shortly after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood began
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