Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
| Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh | |
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Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
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| Born |
14 February 1960 Jabalia Camp, Gaza Strip |
| Died | 19 January 2010 (aged 49) Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Buried in | Damascus, Syria |
| Allegiance | Hamas |
| Rank | Senior commander |
Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh (Arabic: محمود عبد الرؤوف المبحوح; 14 February 1960 – 19 January 2010) was a senior Hamas military commander and one of the founders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military affiliate of Hamas. He is remembered for his assassination in Dubai (widely seen as an operation of Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence agency) and the diplomatic crisis his assassination triggered over Israelis allegedly using fraudulent foreign passports to carry it out.
As an al-Qassam Brigades operative, al-Mabhouh was involved in terrorist activities targeting Israel, including the abduction and killing of two Israeli soldiers in 1989. In more recent years, al-Mabhouh had assumed an important role procuring weapons for the al-Qassam Brigades. In 2010, journalists Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv alleged that al-Mabhouh had played a key role in forging secret connections between the Hamas government in Gaza and the Al-Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards in Iran.
Al-Mabhouh was killed in the five-star Al Bustan Rotana Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on 19 January 2010, having arrived in the country earlier that day from Syria under an alias and using one of several passports. According to police, al-Mabhouh was drugged and then suffocated with a pillow. Widespread speculation, which Dubai police allegations support, is that he was killed by Israeli Mossad assassins. Allegations that the assassins used fraudulently obtained passports from several countries led to the arrests and expulsions of Israeli officials in several European countries and Australia.
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