Ghassan Kanafani

Ghassan Kanafani

male, deceased (1972)
Ghassan Kanafani (غسان كنفاني, born April 9, 1936 in Akko, Palestine - died July 8, 1972 in Beirut, Lebanon) was a Palestinian writer and a spokesma...
Naji Al-Ali

Naji Al-Ali

male, deceased (1987)
Naji Salim al-Ali (c. 1937 - 29 August 1987) was a Palestinian cartoonist, noted for the sharp political criticism in his work. He drew over 40,000...
Adnan Al-Ghoul

Adnan Al-Ghoul

male, deceased (2004)
Adnan Al-Ghoul was the assistant of Mohammed Deif, the leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. He was killed along...
Yahya Ayyash

Yahya Ayyash

male, deceased (1996)
Yahya Abdal-Tif Ayyash was the chief bombmaker of Hamas and the leader of the Samaria battalion of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. In that...
Abu Samhadana

Abu Samhadana

male, deceased (2006)
Jamal Abu Samhadana, from Rafah in the Gaza Strip, was the founder of the Popular Resistance Committees (which have been held responsible for...
Salah Khalaf

Salah Khalaf

male, deceased (1991)
Salah Khalaf (Arabic ص&;#1604;اح خ&;#1604;ف), also known as Abu Iyad (Arabic أ&;#1576;و...
Ali Hassan Salameh

Ali Hassan Salameh

male, deceased (1979)
Ali Hassan Salameh (died January 22, 1979) was the chief of operations — code name Abu Hassan - for "Black September", the organization re...
Imad Abbas

Imad Abbas

male, deceased (2004)
Imad Abbas was a senior member of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, until his...

Nidal Fat'Hi Rabah Farahat

male, deceased (2003)
Nidal Fat’hi Rabah Farahat created the Qassam rocket, a homemade weapon produced by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Farahat, a devout Muslim, at...

Ibrahim Al-Makadmeh

male, deceased (2003)
Ibrahim al-Makadmeh was a Palestinian and Hamas senior leader in the Gaza Strip who was assassinated by Israeli forces on March 8, 2003. Makadmeh,...