Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif

Mohammed Deif, the mastermind of Operation Aqsa Storm, is behind Hamas’ attacks against Israel. Deif is not his real name. Mohammed Diab al Masri, known by his pseudonym, is the architect of the unprecedented attack on Israel. An operation prepared by a man who has been Tel Aviv’s number one wanted man for years and who is trying to outwit him by any means necessary. Brigade leader Izzedin al-Qassam joined Hamas in 1990, starting in July 2002, and has survived several Israeli assassination attempts against him over the past 20 years.

He lost his wife and seven-month-old son in a raid in 2014; The last known attempt to eliminate it dates back to the “Guardian of the Walls” operation in 2021. Biographies mention six or even eight targeted attacks. He took actions intended to kill her, but she always escaped serious injury. No one is sure, but there are people who say he lost his eye and hand or couldn’t walk because of a splinter.

Little is known about Deif. Apart from his family and a small group of Hamas members, no one really knows him. There are currently three photos of Deif: one very old, the other with a mask and a picture of his shadow. The news currently circulating dates back to 2001, when he was released from a Palestinian Authority prison at Israel’s request. The following year, in 2002, he took command of Al Qassam following the assassination of commander-in-chief Salah Shehadeh.

Operating in the shadows, Deif ordered Hamas members to abandon Israeli sites and take control, killing Israelis and taking others hostage. His primary specialty was taking hostages, an act that was repeated on a massive scale in recent hours. But Deif became the creator of the Qassam rockets raining down on Israel: when fired by the thousands, as now, they all pierce the Iron Dome, Israel’s powerful defense system.

In addition to the missiles, Deif is also the engineer of Gaza’s tunnel network. Here, basic necessities were smuggled out during the difficult years of the embargo imposed by Israel, which calculated the average minimum calorie requirement for Palestinian survival at around 2,279 per person. Over time, the so-called Gaza underground became the bargaining point for what allowed Hamas to launch sustained attacks against Israel. Deif, who had evaded Israel’s powerful intelligence network for 20 years, used this moment to brutally show the world that he was still under the control of the Hamas military command and had only one goal: to come to power. In Ramallah on the West Bank.

Source: Today IT

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