Fadi Kafisha
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Fadi Kafisha (?-August 31, 2006) was the head of the Tanzim in Nablus. Kafisha was responsible for iniating numerous bomb attacks and creating many suicide belts.
In 2004 Kafisha was wounded during a confrontation with IDF soldiers and his arm was amputated. His contact in Lebanon working for Hizballah, Kais Ubaid, sent him an artificial arm from Germany. Apparently, Kafisha continued to lead the Nablus Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades with this arm. During another attempt to capture Kafisha it is alleged he lost his eye. During the al-Aqsa Intifada Kafisha took the leading initiative in preparing terror attacks on Israelis, yet the military checkpoints surrounding Nablus denied most of them exit, and Kafisha's activities were frustrated. Though overshadowed by more publicity-friendly terrorists like Zakariah Zubeidi, Kafisha was instrumental in transforming Nablus into the "terror capital of the West Bank", and when he was killed the Brigades were already planning a wave of terror attacks against Israeli civil and military targets on the West Bank.
On July 17, 2006 Kafisha organised a bomb which exploded on a group of Israeli soldiers, trying to stop the sending of a suicide bomber, in Nablus, killing 1 and wounding 6 others.
On August 31, 2006, Kafisha was killed during a random ambush by the Israeli 93rd "Haruv" battalion. The killing of Kafisha was unexpected, in that he had been in hiding for much of the past decade, and only later did the Israelis discover that they had killed the man described as the most wanted man in the West Bank. Kafisha's status placed him only behind the leaders of Hamas's Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades Muhammad Deif and Ahmad Jaberi of the Gaza Strip in terms of notoriety in the Israeli intelligence wanted lineup.
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- Maariv report (Hebrew)
- Maariv report (Hebrew)
