He was responsible for a Hamas explosives laboratory in Nablus during the 1990s and was an expert in manufacturing explosive devices.
He was involved in several major suicide bombi...
He was responsible for a Hamas explosives laboratory in Nablus during the 1990s and was an expert in manufacturing explosive devices.
He was involved in several major suicide bombings in which dozens of Israelis were killed and hundreds were wounded. He was arrested in January 1998 and sentenced to 26 life terms.
The attacks in which he was directly involved included:
● The bombing at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on July 30, 1997, in which 18 civilians were killed.
● The bombing on the pedestrian mall in Jerusalem on September 4, 1997, in which eight civilians were killed and dozens were wounded.
As part of his involvement in these attacks, he purchased and delivered the explosive bags to the attackers.
He admitted that he had been responsible for a Hamas explosives laboratory in Nablus and had learned from Mahmoud Abu Hanoud how to manufacture explosives.
He was also involved in planning an attack involving the abduction of a soldier, which was thwarted when the abduction cell was arrested. After the abduction attempt failed, he and the operatives with whom he worked decided to plan another abduction attack, as well as an attack at the central bus station in Haifa.
According to the information he provided during his interrogation, the plan was to carry out a car bombing. He was supposed to transfer the explosives from the storage facility for which he was responsible to the terrorist infrastructure in Hebron, which had obtained a vehicle for the attack.
As the person responsible for the materials storage facility, he prepared the raw materials needed to manufacture the explosives for the car bomb.
