Jamal Abu Samhadana

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Jamal Abu Samhadana (Template:Langx, 8 February 1963 – 8 June 2006), from Rafah in the Gaza Strip, was the founder and leader of the Popular Resistance Committees,[1] a former Fatah and Tanzim member, and number two on Israel's list of wanted terrorists.

Abu Samhadana survived an Israeli missile strike in the Gaza Strip in December 2004,[2] but was killed by the Israeli Air Force on 8 June 2006.

Appointment as chief of Executive Force

On 20 April 2006, Abu Samhadana was appointed Director General of the Executive Force, a new security forces in Gaza, by Said Seyam, Interior Minister of the Palestinian National Authority's new Hamas-led government.[3][4] Abu Samhadana was quoted as saying that "We have only one enemy. They are Jews. We have no other enemy. I will continue to carry the rifle and pull the trigger whenever required to defend my people."[5]

The appointment "sparked new criticism from the U.S. and Israel and intensified the struggle for control of some 70,000 Palestinian security forces" between Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas.[6] Abbas subsequently issued a decree banning the formation of the Executive Force that Abu Samhadana was to have headed.[7] However, Hamas defied the President's decree and proceeded with the nomination and the formation of the force.

Assassination

Although Israel acknowledged that Hamas was largely sticking to a ceasefire,[8] on 8 June 2006, he was assassinated, along with at least three other PRC members, by four missiles fired by Israeli Apache helicopters, guided by Israeli reconnaissance drones, at a PRC camp in Rafah.[9][10]

Repercussions of the assassination

At his funeral Samhadana’s supporters called for revenge.[11] Hours after his assassination rockets were fired at Sderot in Israel.[12] The IDF retaliated by bombarding the launch sites on a Gaza beach. During the bombardment period, the civilian Ghalia family was all but wiped out in an explosion.[13] Analysts trace the Samhadana assassination to the rocket fire (on Sderot), through a series of IDF shellings, rocket attacks and commando raids on Gaza that killed over three dozen people, mostly civilians, to the capture of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit on June 25.[8] Two days after Shalit's capture, the IDF launched Operation Summer Rains killing over 400 Palestinians and wounding 650.[8]

References

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  1. ↑ Hamas defies 'security force' ban, BBC News Online, 21 April 2006.
  2. ↑ Palestinians survive Israeli bid on life, Al jazeera, 10 December 2004.
  3. ↑ Rocket chief gets top post, Ynet News, 20 April 2006.
  4. ↑ Amos Harel and Arnon Regular, Wanted militant tapped for post in PA Interior Min., April 23, 2006.
  5. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  6. ↑ Eric Westervelt, Hamas' New Security Force Rankles Israel, PLO, National Public Radio, 21 April 2006.
  7. ↑ Conal Urquhart, Palestinian president vetoes Hamas police, The Guardian, 22 April 2006.
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