List of Israeli assassinations

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The following is a list of assassinations known or believed to have been conducted by Israel. Most fall within two campaigns: Operation Wrath of God, which was launched as a response to the 1972 Munich massacre, and the policy of targeted killings, "focused foiling" (in Hebrew: סיכול ממוקד sikul memukad), in the wake of the al-Aqsa Intifada.

1 1950s
2 1960s
3 1970s
4 1980s
5 1990s
6 2000s
7 Notes
8 References

[edit] 1950s

[edit] 1960s

[edit] 1970s

October 16, 1972 - Abdel Wael Zwaiter, Libyan embassy employee and PLO representative is shot by two gunmen in his Rome apartment.
December 8, 1972 - Dr. Mahmoud Hamshari, PLO representative in France was killed by a bomb concealed in his telephone in Paris.
January 24, 1973 - Hussein Al Bashir, Fatah representative in Cyprus, is killed by a bomb planted in his hotel room bed in Nicosia.
April 6, 1973 - Dr. Basil Al-Kubaissi, a law professor at the American University of Beirut, is killed by two gunmen in Paris.
April 9, 1973 - Sayeret Matkal commandos assassinate the following persons during Operation Spring of Youth
- Muhammad Youssef Al-Najjar, Black September Operations officer and PLO official
- Kamal Adwan, Fatah veteran
- Kamal Nasser, PLO spokesman
April 11, 1973 - Zaiad Muchasi, Fatah representative to Cyprus, is killed in a hotel room in Athens.
June 28, 1973 - Mohammad Boudia, Black September operations officer, is killed by a pressure activated mine under his car seat in Paris.
July 21, 1973 - Ahmed Bouchiki, an innocent waiter believed to be Ali Hassan Salameh, is killed by gunmen in Lillehammer, Norway. The incident has since become known as the Lillehammer affair.
January 22, 1979 - Ali Hassan Salameh, high-ranked leader in the PLO and Black September, is killed by a car bomb in Beirut.

[edit] 1980s

April 16, 1988 - Abu Jihad, second in command to Yassir Arafat, is killed by Israeli commandos in Tunis. See Tunis Raid.

[edit] 1990s

February 16, 1992 - Abbas al-Musawi, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, is killed in his car convoy in Lebanon by misslies launched from two Israeli helicopters.
October 26, 1995 - Fathi Shaqaqi, the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, is shot and killed in front of the Diplomat Hotel in Sliema, Malta.
January 6, 1996 - Yahya Ayyash "The Engineer", a bombmaker for Hamas, is killed in the Gaza strip when his cell phone explodes.

[edit] 2000s

November 22, 2000 - Jamal Abdel Raziq, senior official of the Fatah faction Tanzim, is killed with three other group members when their two cars are fired upon by IDF troops in Gaza.^[1]
February 3, 2001 - Massoud Ayyad, a lieutenant-colonel in Yaser Arafat's Force 17, is killed while driving in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza by three helicopter launched rockets.^[2]
July 31, 2001 - Jamal Mansour, a high ranking official of Hamas' West Bank political wing, is killed when his office is struck by helicopter launched missiles.^[3]
August 20, 2001 - Imad Abu Sneneh, the leader of Tanzim, is shot and killed in Hebron by an Israeli team.^[4]
July 22, 2002 - Salah Shahade, the leader of Hamas Izz ad-Din al-Qassam is killed using 2,205 pound of explosive dropped by a F-16. The attack also killed his wife and 9 children.
March 22, 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire missiles.
April 17, 2004 - Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, co-founder and leader of Hamas and successor of Ahmed Yassin as leader of Hamas after his death, is killed by helicopter-fired missiles along with his son.

[edit] Notes

^ Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the US State Department, February 23, 2001. Retrieved October 14, 2006.
^ Philips, Alan. "Arafat aide killed in helicopter ambush", Telegraph, February 14, 2001. Retrieved October 14, 2006.
^ Profile: Hamas activist Jamal Mansour, BBC News, July 31, 2001. Retrieved October 14, 2006.
^ "Palestinian activist shot, killed", CNN, August 20, 2001. Retrieved October 14, 2006.