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Mohammad Abu Shamalah
NameMohammad Abu Shamalah
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Personal Details
Birth PlaceRafah
Brith Date1947?
Death PlaceRafah
Death Date2014
ReligionIslam

Mohammad Abu Shamalah, also known as "Abu Khalil", was the Deputy Commander of the Rafah Battalion of the Martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and a member of its Central Council. He played a strategic role in organizing and supervising the battalion's weapon manufacturing workshops in Rafah, and in designing and executing road shooting operations, digging tunnels to explode military sites, and various wars against the occupying regime. He was one of the members of the negotiation team for the Wafa al-Ahrar deal in 2011, the plan to exchange 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for the return of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli sergeant captured by special forces units of Hamas Movement on 25 June 2006. On 21 August 2014, he was killed along with two other Qassami commanders, Raed al-Attar and Mohammed Barhoum, in an attack by Israeli fighter jets on a house in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in the west of Rafah city.

Biography

Mohammad Ibrahim Salah Abu Shamalah was born on 1 February 1974, in the Yibna refugee camp in Rafah Governorate, in a Palestinian refugee family who were displaced from the destroyed village of Beit Daras in the occupied Ramle region.Template:Efn

Education

He completed his elementary and secondary education in Gaza and joined the Faculty of Usul al-Din at the Islamic University of Gaza City. Due to being pursued by the occupying regime of Jerusalem, he was unable to graduate since 1991.

Military Activities

Abu Shamalah joined Hamas Movement in his early youth and, with the start of his national activities, led many operations against the occupying forces and continued pursuit and elimination operations of Israeli espionage agents as much as possible. He belonged to the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in 1993.

Collaboration in Organizing and Supervising Weapon Workshops

He participated in organizing the ranks of the Qassam Brigades during the Second Intifada and was responsible for the southern region in the Gaza Strip, supervising weapon workshops, and was appointed as the commander of the Logistics and Equipment Department in the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

Participation in Designing and Executing Operations

As the Deputy Commander of the Rafah Battalion of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with the battalion commander, Raed al-Attar, he played a key role in designing and executing a number of road shooting operations against the occupying forces, including:

  • The Kisufim and Kfarim operations in 1993;
  • The Khaza'a operation in 1994;
  • The Peace operation at the Egyptian border in 1994.

Also, along with his commander Attar, he undertook the leadership and supervision of multiple operations of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, such as:

  • The Hardoon operation at the Palestine border on 17 December 2003, an operation in a protected position of the occupying regime in the north of Khan Yunis city on 27 June 2004;
  • The Barakin al-Ghadab operation at the Rafah crossing on 2 December 2004;
  • The Al-Wahm Al-Mutabadid operation, in 2006, in the east of Rafah in the Kerem Shalom area, during which two Israeli soldiers were killed, six soldiers wounded, and one soldier named Gilad Shalit was captured.

Abu Shamalah was one of the operational designers at the Kerem Shalom crossing, south of the Gaza Strip, in 2008, where by exploding jeeps, four-wheel drive vehicles, and bomb-laden vehicles, he caused injuries to 13 Israeli soldiers. He was a member of the negotiation team in the Wafa al-Ahrar deal in 2011, based on which 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in occupying prisons with life sentences and heavy sentences were released in exchange for the return of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli sergeant captured by special forces units of Hamas Movement on 25 June 2006. He was also one of the most prominent military commanders in three resistance wars of Palestine against the army of the occupying regime, Al-Furqan between 2008-2009, Pillar of Stone in 2012, and Al-Asaf in 2014, and Al-Akfoul Asf in 2014. He took command of Qassam operations in the southern section, Rafah and Khan Yunis region, and became Deputy Commander of the Rafah Brigade and a member of the Supreme Military Council of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

Arrests and Assassination Attempts

Throughout his struggle, he endured many hardships. Since 1991 CE, he was pursued by the intelligence services of the Israeli regime and was arrested by the occupiers, spending 9 months in their prisons. In September 1994 CE, a security force of the Palestinian Authority severely injured him. In 1995 CE and then in 1996 CE, he was imprisoned in the prisons of the Palestinian Authority, tortured, and sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor. He survived two assassination attempts by occupying forces. The first was in 2003 CE, when his car was subjected to an airstrike, and he was injured after jumping out near the European Hospital between the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis. The second was in 2004 CE, when occupying forces attacked the Palestinian refugee camp in Yibna, besieged and destroyed his house, and repeated this several times, the last of which was during Operation Protective Edge in 2014 CE.

Martyrdom

Muhammad Abu Shamala was martyred in an attack by Israeli fighter jets on a residential building in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city of Rafah, on 21 August 2014 CE, along with two other Qassam commanders, Raed Attar and Muhammad Barhoum.

See also

References

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