Husam Badran

Husam Badran is the former leader of Hamas’s military wing in the northern West Bank. He was the orchestrator of several of the most deadly suicide bombings of the Second Intifada including the 2001 bombing of the Dolphinariam discotheque in Tel Aviv which killed 21 people. Currently Badran serves as the international spokesperson for Hamas using Twitter,Facebook, and news media to encourage Hamas militants to commit acts of political violence against Israelis and the Israeli government. He lives in Doha, Qatar.

Badran was born on January 11, 1966 and is originally from Nablus, in the West Bank.

The Second Intifada, or Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation policy, was marked by widespread violence which erupted on Friday, September 28, 2000 and lasted until 2005. Protests began when Ariel Sharon visited Temple Mount in the Old City Jerusalem with 1,000 Israeli police in what Palestinians saw as a blatant attempt to provoke them. Protests quickly turned into terrorism targeting Israeli civilians on buses, restaurants, and on city streets. During this period, Husam Badran was the commander of Hamas’s military wing in the Samaria area [3] and was involved in orchestrating the suicide bombing on Sbarro Pizza, the Dolphinariam Discotheque bombing, the bombing of Passover seder at the Park Hotel, and the bombing of Matza restaurant in Haifa as part of the Second Intifada attacks. More than 100 people were killed in Second Intifada terrorist attacks ordered by Badran.

Badran was arrested in 2002 [7] in as a part of Operation “Defensive Shield,” a large scale military operation initiated by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) against Palestinian Militants in the West Bank. In 2004, he was sentenced to 17 years of imprisonment for his role in the Second Intifada. [6] But he was released in 2011 as part of the Gilas Shalit prisoner exchange and expelled to Qatar.

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