Mohammed Atiyah Mahmoud Abu Wardah

He was a member of Hassan Salameh's group, which carried out the bombings on the two buses on line 18 in Jerusalem and at the Ashkelon junction. He located and recruited the three suicide bombers for these attacks, in which 46 Israelis were killed and about 100 were injured. He was sentenced by the Palestinian Authority to life imprisonment and served his sentence in Jericho prison, but in April 2001 he was released from prison and smuggled to Hebron. In Hebron he returned to military activity and served as one of the leaders of Hamas in the city. He was captured by security forces in 2002, and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was released from prison on January 30, 2025, after 22 years of imprisonment, as part of the third phase of the hostage deal. According to the terms of the deal, he was permanently expelled from the West Bank.