Mohammed Deïf, chief of the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades, the armed branch of Hamas, considered as the architect of the operation “deluge of Al Aqsa” against Israel, remains a mystery even for the Israelis, who have been trying to kill him for 20 years.
Hamas is made up of a political branch and an armed branch. If the political bureau is led by Ismaïl Haniyeh, the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades, its armed branch, have been directed since 2002 by Mohammed Deïf, considered the brain of the operation “deluge of Al Aqsa”.
To a certain extent, the response of Israel, which has already left more than 800 dead in the Gaza Strip and in Cosjordan, aims to eliminate Mohammed Deïf, considered one of the known brains of the operation.
It is almost nothing to know about Mohammed Deïf except that this general -in -chief of Hamas would have been born in the 1960s south of Gaza, in the refugee camp of Khan Younis.
Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri remains a mystery for the Israeli intelligence services, who nicknamed him “the guest” because he is still in motion. A character so mysterious that there is only three photos of him, dating all of over 20 years.
Israel has hunted him in vain for over 20 years, but Mohammed Deïf still escaped several attacks. According to the Israeli army, in 2006 he lost an arm and a leg in an F16 attack, which strikes the bad floor of the building where it is. Later, in 2014, during a new attempt, he escaped the release of five anti bunkers bombs, an explosions to which his wife and his 8 month old child will not survive.
For the past ten years, he has become the priority target of the Israeli army and the public enemy n ° 1 of Israel and it is undoubtedly the final objective of the current response against the Gaza Strip.
His voice was identified on Saturday in the message of claim of Hamas: “In the light of repeated crimes against our people, of the crawling occupation in defiance of international laws and resolutions, today, the anger of Al Aqsa lets explode the rage of our people, our nation and the liberation of our communities in the world. The day came to make our criminal enemy understand that his time is over. »»
The factory of rockets, so far artisanal, then becomes industrial. Deïf is also at the origin of the construction of the Gaza tunnels, the basis of the strategy he has always wished to set up.
Since Saturday, Mohammed Deïf has put his new war strategy into practice!
