Hamas: Who are the group’s most prominent leaders?

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******: Who are the group’s most prominent leaders?

Mohammed Deif leads the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the ****** movement.

He is a shadowy figure known to Palestinians as The Mastermind, and to Israelis as The Cat with Nine Lives.

******** authorities imprisoned him in 1989, after which he formed the al-Qassam Brigades with the aim of capturing ******** soldiers.

After his release, he helped engineer the construction of tunnels that have allowed ****** fighters to get inside ******* from Gaza,

Deif is one of *******’s most-wanted men, accused of planning and supervising bus bombings which ******* tens of Israelis in 1996, and of involvement in the capture and ******** of three ******** soldiers in the mid-1990s.

******* imprisoned him in 2000, but he escaped at the beginning of the second ************ uprising, or intifada.

Since then, he has left behind little trace. There are three known pictures of him: one is dated, he is masked in the second, and the third is of his shadow.

The most serious ************** attempts on his life were in 2002: Deif survived but lost one of his eyes. ******* says he also lost a foot and a hand, and that he has difficulty speaking.

******** security forces again ******* to ************ Deif during a 2014 ******** on the Gaza Strip, but ******* his wife and two of his children.

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