List of targeted killings by Israel
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Targeted killing[1][2] or assassination[3] is a tactic that has been repeatedly used by the Israel Defense Forces or other Israeli organisations in the course of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict or other conflicts.[3]
List of targeted killings by Israel
Below is a list of notable targeted killings by the Israeli military:
- Operation Wrath of God against Black September Organization and Palestinian Liberation Organization personnel alleged to have been directly or indirectly involved in the 1972 Munich massacre, led to the Lillehammer affair.
- Operation Spring of Youth against top Palestine Liberation Organisation leaders in Beirut, 1973: Muhammad Najjar, Kamal Adwan, and Kamal Nasser.[4]
- Wadie Haddad, PFLP-EO leader who was responsible for the Entebbe hijacking. Mossad is suspected of killing him in 1978 by poisoning his toothpaste.[5]
- Yahya El Mashad, Egyptian nuclear scientist heading Iraq's nuclear program, killed in a Paris hotel room in 1980.[6]
- Khalil al-Wazir known by his nom de guerre Abu Jihad. One of the founders and Military Head of Fatah, killed in Tunis, 1988.[7]
- Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer working in the development of a "supergun" for the Iraqi government. Shot dead in Brussels on 22 March 1990. Mossad is suspected.[8]
- Abbas al-Musawi, Secretary General of Hezbollah, killed when Israeli Apache helicopters fired missiles at his motorcade in southern Lebanon on 16 February 1992. His wife, his five-year-old son, and four others were also killed.[9]
- Emad Akel, Hamas commander, killed by Israeli soldiers in disguise near a house in Shuja'iyya, 1993.[10]
- Fathi Shaqaqi, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, killed by a Mossad team in front of a Maltese hotel on 26 October 1995.[11]
- Yahya Ayyash (Hamas bombmaker, "the Engineer") in Beit Lahya, Gaza, 1996. Ayyash was killed by a cell phone allegedly containing "50 grams of high-grade explosives."[12]
- Khaled Mashal (Hamas) in Jordan, 1997 (failed)
- During the Second Intifada, Hamas leaders Mahmoud Adani (February 2001), Jamil Jadallah (October 2001),[13] Mahmoud Abu Hanoud (November 2001),[14] Salah Shahade (July 2002), Ibrahim al-Makadmeh (March 2003), Ismail Abu Shanab (August 2003), Ahmed Yassin (March 2004), Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi (April 2004) and Adnan al-Ghoul (October 2004),.[15]
- Abu Ali Mustafa, secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, killed by an Israeli helicopter missile strike at his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah on 27 August 2001.[16]
- Salah Mustafa Muhammad Shehade killed by a one-ton bomb during July 2002 in Gaza. Also killed were 11 civilians, including Shehadeh's wife and three sons, and four other children.[17][18]
- Ahmed Ismail Yassin killed along with 7 other bystanders on Friday morning, 22 March 2004, when an AH-64 Apache helicopter fired Hellfire missiles as he exited a mosque in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza.[19][20]
- Naif Abu-Sharah, local commander of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Nablus, killed with other two senior militants during an Israeli raid in the West Bank on 27 June 2004.[21]
- Jamal Abu Samhadana killed with three other militants on 8 June 2006, when an Israeli Apache helicopter fired four missiles at a PRC camp in Rafah.[22]
- Possible targeted killing: Imad Mugniyah, a senior Hezbollah commander, was killed in February 2008 in a car bomb. Mossad is alleged to have been behind the killing.[23]
- Muhammad Suleiman, Syrian general, killed on 1 August 2008 by an Israeli Navy special forces unit on a beach near Tartus.[24]
- Nizar Rayan, Hamas leader, killed with fifteen of his relatives by an Israeli airstrike on 1 January 2009 when a 2,000-pound bomb was dropped on his house.[25]
- Iranian scientists working for their country's nuclear program: Masoud Alimohammadi, Majid Shahriari and Fereydoon Abbasi in 2010; Darioush Rezaeinejad in 2011; Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan in 2012.[26]
- Possible targeted killing: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas commander and one of the founders of the al-Qassam Brigades, was killed in January 2010 by being electrocuted and/or drugged with succinylcholine, a quick-acting paralytic, and then suffocated in his room in a five-star Dubai hotel; the Dubai police said that Mossad was behind the killing.[27][28][29][30]
- Zuhir al-Qaisi, secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees, killed with another senior militant in a missile strike by IDF aircraft on 9 March 2012 while he was driving his vehicle in western Gaza city.[31]
- Ahmed Jabari, senior Hamas leader, killed by an Israeli drone strike on 14 November 2012 while he was traveling with his bodyguard along Omar Mukhtar Street in Gaza City.[32]
- Raed al Atar, Hamas military commander killed with two other top Hamas commanders by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah on 21 August 2014.[33]
- Jihad Mughniyah, Hezbollah commander killed on 18 January 2015 by an Israeli helicopter strike in Quneitra Governorate in the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights along with five other prominent members of Hezbollah and six IRGC commanders, including a general.[34]
- Samir Kuntar killed with other seven Syrian nationals on 20 December 2015 by an Israeli airstrike in Jaramana, Syria.[35]
- Mohamed Zouari, designer of drones for Hamas, shot dead in Sfax, Tunisia, on 15 December 2016. Mossad is suspected.[36]
- Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, Palestinian engineer working for Hamas, shot dead in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 21 April 2018. Mossad is suspected.[37]
- Aziz Asbar, senior Syrian scientist responsible for long-range rockets and chemical weapons programs, killed in a car bomb in Masyaf, Syria, on 5 August 2018. Mossad is suspected.[38]
- Hamed Ahmed Abed Khudri, Hamas member killed on 5 May 2019 by an airstrike while travelling in a car down a street in Gaza during the day.[39]
- Baha Abu al-Ata, Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on 12 November 2019.[40]
- Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, senior al-Qaeda member, killed in Tehran on 7 August 2020 by Israeli agents at the request of the United States.[41][42]
- Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iranian nuclear scientist, killed by gunshots in Absard on 27 November 2020. Israel is suspected.[43]
- Mohammed Abdullah Fayyad, Hamas commander, killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza at the start of Operation Guardian of the Walls on 10 May 2021.[44]
- Bassem Issa, Hamas security council member, was killed by an airstrike in Gaza on 12 May 2021.[45]
- Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, colonel of Iran's Quds Force, shot dead in Tehran on 22 May 2022. Israel is suspected.[46]
- Tayseer Jabari, Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza, was killed in an airstrike on 5 August 2022.[47]
- Ali Ramzi Al-Aswad, Islamic Jihad engineer, killed near Damascus on 19 March 2023. Israel is suspected.[48]
- Khalil Bahtini, Islamic Jihad commander in northern Gaza; Jihad Ghanem, top official in the group's military council; and Tareq Izz ed-Din, in charge of directing Islamic Jihad activities in the West Bank, killed by airstrike in Gaza at the start of Operation Shield and Arrow on 9 May 2023.[49]
References
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gross, Michael (August 2006). "Assassination and Targeted Killing: Law Enforcement, Execution or Self-Defence?". Journal of Applied Philosophy. 23 (3): 323–335. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5930.2006.00347.x.
- ↑ "34 Years Since 'Operation Spring of Youth.'" Israel Defense Forces. News-Today in the IDF-(Archives). 11 April 2007.
- ↑ "Mossad chose not to nab Mengele, didn't hunt down Munich terrorists, book claims". The Times of Israel. 2018-01-26.
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- ↑ Inbari, Pinchas. "Removing the Imaginary Hurdle." Al-HaMishmar. 18 April 1988. Article found in "The Murder of Abu Jihad". The Journal of Palestine Studies. Vol 17, No. 4, 1988. Page 155
- ↑ Toolis, Kevin (August 26, 1990). "The Man Behind Iraq's Supergun". New York Times.
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- ↑ "Hamas mourns its greatest martyr: Robert Fisk in Marj al-Zohour, southern Lebanon, hears how a Palestinian came to die for the Islamic 'revolution' in Israel". The Independent. 1993-11-29.
- ↑ Yossi Melman, "Mossad, MI6, the CIA and the case of the assassinated scientist", The Independent, 30 November 2010.
- ↑ Greenberg, Joel (10 January 1996). "Slaying Blended Technology and Guile". (Archives). The New York Times.
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- ↑ "Day seven: 430 killed, over 2,200 injured since Saturday". Maan News Agency. 2 January 2009.
- ↑ Meikle, James (11 January 2012). "Iran: timeline of attacks". The Guardian.
- ↑ "Hamas military commander 'assassinated in Dubai'". BBC News. 29 January 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
- ↑ "Hamas man 'drugged and suffocated' in Dubai". BBC News. 28 February 2010. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
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- ↑ MarkSchone (17 February 2010). "Israel's Greatest Hits: Before Dubai, a History of Targeted Killing". ABC News. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
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- ↑ Goldman, Adam; Schmitt, Eric; Fassihi, Farnaz; Bergman, Ronen (14 November 2020). "Al Qaeda's No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in Iran". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ "Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran". BBC. 27 November 2020.
- ↑ "Jerusalem violence: Deadly air strikes hit Gaza after rocket attacks". BBC. 10 May 2021.
- ↑ Fitz-Gibbon, Jorge (12 May 2021). "Israel takes out top Hamas leader Bassem Issa with Gaza airstrike". New York Post.
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- ↑ Joffre, Tzvi (2023-03-19). "Israel assassinated Islamic Jihad member in Syria, PIJ claims". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
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