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Raed Attar, nicknamed "Abu Ayman", was the commander of the Rafah Battalion of the Martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and a member of its central council, who had a strategic role in the training, planning, and development of the Rafah Battalion and in designing and executing roadside shooting operations, digging tunnels to explode military sites, and various wars against the occupation regime. He was one of the members of the negotiating team of the Wafa al-Ahrar deal in 2011 AD, the plan to exchange 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in return for the return of Gilad Shalit, the sergeant of the Israeli regime captured by the special forces units of the Hamas movement on 25 June 2006 AD. And on 21 August 2014 AD, in an attack by Israeli fighter jets on a house in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in the west of the city of Rafah, he was martyred along with two other Qassam commanders, Mohammed Abu Shamala and Mohammed Barhoum.
Biography
Raed Subhi Ahmed al-Attar was born in May 1974 AD in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yibna in the Rafah Governorate in a Palestinian refugee family that had been displaced from the destroyed village of Yibna in the occupied Ramle region.
Education
He completed his elementary and secondary periods in the schools of the Gaza Strip and finished high school in 1992 AD. He was pursued by the Israeli occupation regime from 1991 AD, and this prevented him from continuing his education.
Militant activities
Attar became a member of the Hamas Movement immediately after its establishment and participated in patriotic activities and the organization of demonstrations and strikes, and cooperated with secret groups of the Hamas Movement that specialized in identifying agents of Israel. He also joined the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in 1993 CE.
Cooperation in development, training, and planning
He played a fundamental role in the development of weapons, training, and planning of operations for the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades during the Second Intifada, 2000–2005 CE, and after 2000, he had a pivotal role in reorganizing the ranks and developing the strategy of these brigades in the Rafah Governorate. During the Second Intifada, through digging tunnels, he was able to lead a series of specific operations to explode certain positions of Israel.
Participation in the design and execution of operations
Attar played a fundamental role in the design and execution of a number of roadside shooting operations against the Occupying forces, including: the Kisufim and Kfarim operations in 1993 CE, the Khazaa operation in 1994 CE, and also the Peace operation on the Egyptian border in 1994 CE. He also led multiple operations of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, which, by using dug tunnels, were able to explode some positions of Israel and lead to the injury and killing of a number of Israeli forces. Such as:
- An operation at an Israeli military site named Termid in the south of Rafah city on 26 September 2001 CE, by digging a tunnel 150 meters long and remotely detonating two 250 kg bombs, in which five soldiers were killed and more than 30 soldiers were wounded.
- An operation at an Israeli military site named Hardoon, which was equipped with very precise imaging and surveillance mechanisms and advanced machine gun weapons, on 17 December 2003 CE, by digging a tunnel 200 meters long, in which, according to Israel's admission, three soldiers were killed and 11 others were wounded.
- An operation at a position protected by Israel in the north of Khan Yunis city on 27 June 2004, by digging a tunnel 500 meters long and detonating 21 explosive barrels weighing three tons of explosives, in which seven soldiers were killed and twenty others were wounded.
- The Barakin al-Ghadab operation in cooperation with the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and the Falcons of the Fatah, on 2 December 2004 CE, by digging a tunnel 600 meters long in 4 months and detonating a bomb weighing 1300 kg by two mujahideen, one from the al-Qassam Brigades and the other from the Falcons of the Fatah, who after exiting the tunnel engaged with Israeli soldiers for one hour and one of them was martyred, while the other mujahid was able to retreat and obtain a medium weapon of the MAG type, and then the entire site was destroyed, seven soldiers were killed and more than 13 others were wounded.
He, along with his deputy, Mohammed Abu Shamala, supervised the Al-Wahm Al-Mubadad operation, in 2006 CE, in the east of Rafah city, during which Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured. Attar was a member of the negotiation team for the Wafa Al-Ahrar deal (Loyalty to Free Prisoners Contract) in 2011 CE, based on which 1027 Palestinian prisoners in Occupied prisons with life imprisonment and heavy sentences were released in exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured by the Hamas Movement. He also was a commander of the al-Qassam Brigades and a member of the General Military Council of these brigades, playing a pivotal role in confronting the aggressions of the occupiers in the Furqan Wars (2008–2009 CE), Hajar al-Sijil (2012 CE), al-Asf al-Ma'kul (2014 CE), and the attack on the Sufa outpost in the east of Rafah. And among the ambushes that were under his supervision was the Abu al-Rous ambush in the east of Rafah, during which the Israeli officer, Hadar Goldin, went missing.
Arrests and Assassination Attempts
Al-Attar was pursued by the Occupiers since 1991 AD and was arrested by this regime for nine months in 1991, seven months in 1995, and five and a half months in 1996. The Occupiers attempted to assassinate him three times in 2003 AD through aerial bombing of his vehicle and besieging his house, and in 2004 AD, they destroyed the Yibna camp. Shortly after the capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, they attempted to kidnap him, and his house was bombed in the years 2008 AD, 2012 AD, and 2014 AD. Also, after the Oslo Accords, based on which legal weapons in the West Bank and Gaza were defined as the weapons of the army of the Zionist Occupiers and the weapons of the self-governing authority dependent on the Occupiers, and thus all armed individuals affiliated with the resistance movement who acted against the occupiers were to be arrested by the self-governing authorities, in 1995 he was sentenced to two years in prison by a court affiliated with the self-governing authority on charges of training with illegal weapons, and by the "National Security Court" affiliated with the self-governing authority, on March 10, 1999, he was sentenced to death by firing squad, due to the killing of a police officer of the self-governing authority during the attempt to arrest him. This caused heavy clashes in Rafah (south of Gaza), such that the self-governing authorities retreated from this decision.
Martyrdom
Raed al-Attar was martyred in an attack by fighter jets of the Zionist Occupying Regime on August 21, 2014 AD, on a house in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in the west of the city of Rafah, along with two other Qassami commanders, Muhammad Abu Shammala and Muhammad Barhoum, and five other Palestinian citizens, and more than forty people were injured.
Reactions
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, to honor the struggles and fights of this Qassami commander, in 2015 AD unveiled a new missile named al-Attar (A), which was used extensively in the destruction of Israeli positions during the Sword of Jerusalem battle in 2021 AD, resulting in unprecedented damage to the Zionist regime and changing the war equations in line with the goals of the Islamic Resistance, and during this battle, it neutralized the claimed Israeli Iron Dome, which had created a kind of deterrence for this regime.
Hezbollah Lebanon issued a statement in response to the martyrdom of three commanders affiliated with the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, stating: Hezbollah offers condolences to the families of the martyrs Muhammad Abu Shammala, Raed al-Attar, and Muhammad Barhoum, and to Hamas, the Resistance, and the nation of Palestine. These three commander martyrs sacrificed themselves for the Resistance and the defense of their nation. The statement stated: The Martyrdom of commanders does not create a flaw in the determination and will of the Resistance, rather it makes their determination in Jihad and liberation more resolute. Hezbollah announced that it condemns the crimes of the Zionists in Gaza, which continue brutally amidst deadly Arab and international silence. The silence of the global community has created a cover for Zionist terrorism.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran issued a statement on the occasion of the martyrdom of three commanders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in the Gaza Strip.
The full text of this statement is as follows:
The Islamic Republic of Iran offers condolences to the Islamic Ummah, the oppressed nation of Palestine, especially the resistant people of Gaza, comrades, and the honorable families of these dear ones for the martyrdom of three commanders of the martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades by Zionist criminals. The Islamic Republic of Iran, while condemning this criminal act, believes that such terrorist actions make the determination of the resistant and sacrificial people of Palestine and the comrades of these martyrs more resolute in the path of Resistance and Jihad until final victory. It asks the Great God for the exaltation of the degrees of these martyrs, and patience and continuation of the path of these dear ones for the comrades and survivors.
See Also
References
- Vision Center for Political Development, Raed al-Attar, Date of publication: August 9, 2021 AD, Date of access: 13 Mordad 1403 SH.
- Al-Mayadeen Media Network, Independent Arab News Satellite Channel, Who are al-Attar, Abu Shammala, and Barhoum, the Martyr Qassam Leaders?, Date of publication: August 21, 2014 AD, Date of access: 13 Mordad 1403 SH.
- Mashregh News, Who was the "Number One Man" of al-Qassam Brigades Operations?, Date of publication: 30 Khordad 1391 SH, Date of access: 13 Mordad 1403 SH.