Muath Saeed Ahmad Saeed Bilal

He was responsible for Hamas's explosives laboratory in Nablus during the 1990s and was an expert in manufacturing explosive devices. He was involved in several severe suicide attacks in which dozens of Israelis were killed and hundreds were wounded. He was arrested in January 1998 and sentenced to 26 life sentences. Among the attacks in which he was directly involved were: ● The attack at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on July 30, 1997, in which 18 civilians were murdered ● The attack at the pedestrian mall in Jerusalem on September 4, 1997, in which 8 civilians were murdered and dozens were wounded As part of his involvement in these attacks, he acquired and transferred the explosive devices to the attackers. He admitted that he was responsible for Hamas's explosives laboratory in Nablus and learned to manufacture explosives from Mahmoud Abu Hanoud. Additionally, he was involved in planning a soldier kidnapping attack which was thwarted when the kidnapping cell was arrested. After the failure of the kidnapping attack, he decided together with the operatives he worked with to plan another kidnapping attack as well as carrying out an attack at the central bus station in Haifa. According to information he provided during his interrogation, the plan was to carry out a car bombing attack where he was supposed to transfer the explosives from the storage facility he was responsible for to the terror cell in Hebron which had a vehicle for the attack. As part of his role as responsible for the materials storage, he prepared the raw materials for manufacturing the explosives for the car bomb.