Profile: Hamas commander Mohammed Deif. Mohammed Deif has been at the top of Israel's "most wanted" list for years and is thought to have narrowly escaped the Israeli army's efforts to kill him on several occasions.
Although he only took over as Gaza commander of Hamas's military wing in July 2002, Israel holds him personally responsible for the deaths of dozens of people in suicide bombings since 1996. Israel calls him a mastermind of terror, the man who chooses when and where suicide attacks take place - and sends the bombers on their way. But unlike Hamas's spiritual leader, the blind, paralysed cleric Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Mohammed Deif and his Izz al-Din Qassam brigades comrades have always operated in the shadows.
Hamas - Wiki. Hamas (Arabic: حماس Ḥamās, "enthusiasm", an acronym of حركة المقاومة الاسلامية Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, "Islamic Resistance Movement") is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist[5] organization, with an associated military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades,[6] located in the Palestinian territories.
Since June 2007 Hamas has governed the Gaza Strip, after it won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament in the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections[7] and then defeated the Fatah political organization in a series of violent clashes. Israel, the United States,[8] Canada,[9] the European Union,[10][11] Jordan,[12] Egypt [13] and Japan classify Hamas as a terrorist organization,[14] while Iran, Russia,[15] Turkey,[16] China[17][18][19][20] and many nations across the Arab world do not.
In the January 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections Hamas won a decisive majority in the Palestinian Parliament,[7] defeating the PLO-affiliated Fatah party. Jaabari: More Israeli soldiers to be captured to free all prisoners. A Million Stories about the Zionist Rape of This World – in pictures GAZA, (PIC)– Ahmed Al-Jaabari, the deputy general commander of the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas, has affirmed that his armed wing would continue to plan capturing Israeli soldiers to trade them for Palestinian prisoners.
He said in a press statement on Saturday that the Qassam Brigades would not rest until all Palestinian prisoners were freed from Israeli occupation jails. Jaabari, who headed the Palestinian negotiating team in the prisoners’ exchanged deal with Israel, said that the moment the first batch of Palestinian prisoners were released from jail was one of the best moments of his life. As far as the second stage of the exchange deal was concerned, Jaabari said that Israel would not dare violate the deal especially with the presence of the Egyptian patron. He affirmed that the second batch should include those who spent more than 20 years in jail, the sick, and the elderly internees.