Ibrahim Hamed
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Ibrahim Hamed is a Hamas
military commander in the West Bank
who ordered suicide bombing attacks during the Al-Aqsa Intifada
until he was apprehended by Israel
i security sources on 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.
Hamas
Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...
military commander in the West Bank
West Bank
The West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...
who ordered suicide bombing attacks during the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Al-Aqsa Intifada
The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada and the Oslo War, was the second Palestinian uprising, a period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000...
until he was apprehended by Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
i security sources on 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
Internment
Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the meaning as: "The action of 'interning'; confinement within the limits of a country or place." Most modern usage is about individuals, and there is a distinction...
under consecutive 6-month administrative detention
Administrative detention
Administrative detention is arrest and detention of individuals by the state without trial, usually for security reasons. A large number of countries, both democratic and undemocratic, resort to administrative detention as a means to combat terrorism, control illegal immigration, or to protect the...
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.Ben Yehuda Street BombingThe Ben Yehuda Street bombings refer to a series of attacks by Palestinians and suicide bombers on civilians in downtown Jerusalem, Israel in 1948...
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.