Ibrahim Hamed

Ibrahim Hamed (إبراهيم حامد) is a Hamas military commander in the West Bank who ordered suicide bombing attacks during the Al-Aqsa Intifada [http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3254071,00.html Top Hamas fugitive nabbed] by Efrat Weiss, Ynetnews, May 23, 2006] until he was apprehended by Israeli security sources on May 23, 2006. [ [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=718934 IDF arrests most-wanted Hamas bomb mastermind in West Bank] by Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, May 23, 2006] Israeli authorities accused him of being responsible for 96 civilian deaths [http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3254071,00.html] .

It appears that Hamed has been interned under consecutive 6-month administrative detention orders by the Israeli government. [http://www.imemc.org/article/49604] [http://www.mandela-palestine.org/show.php?action=detail&id=1177410883&lang=eng&cat=Press%20Statement] It is unclear whether he has been charged with or convicted of murder or terrorist offences by the Israeli military or civilian court system.

Attacks attributed to Ibrahim Hamed

*According to Israeli security sources on December 1, 2001, Hamed dispatched two suicide bombers who blew up in Zion Square and Ben Yehuda St. in Jerusalem killing 11 people and injuring dozens.
*On March 9, 2002, a Hamas suicide bomber dispatched by Hamed blew himself up at Moment cafe massacre in Jerusalem killing 12 people.
*Six people were killed in a suicide attack planned by Hamed at the Sheffield Club in Rishon Letzion on March 7 that same year.
*A bomb planted in a cafeteria at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem killed nine students on July 31, 2002.
*On November 9, 2003, Hamed ordered two timed suicide bombing attacks at a major Jerusalem junction and at Café Hilel in the capital. Seventeen people were killed on that day.

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