List of Israeli assassinations
2010s

List of Israeli assassinations

Section Title: 2010s
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Date	Place	Location	Target	Description	Action	Executor

January 11, 2010	Deir al-Balah	Gaza Strip	Awad Abu Nasir	Islamic Jihad Senior Field Commander	Had escaped several assassination attempts. Reportedly involved in attempts to harm Israeli soldiers. Killed by a missile.	Israeli Air Force

January 12, 2010	Tehran	Iran	Masoud Alimohammadi	Iranian Physicist	Killed in a car bomb. Majid Jamali Fashi reportedly confessed to an Iranian court he had been recruited by Mossad to carry out the execution, while the US State Department called the allegation "absurd".	Mossad (alleged)

January 19, 2010	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	Mahmoud al-Mabhouh	Hamas senior military commander of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, believed to have been involved in smuggling weapons and explosives into Gaza.	Widely reported to have been killed by Israeli intelligence members. Israel stated that there is no proof of its involvement, and neither confirmed nor denied the allegations of a Mossad role.

July 30, 2010	Deserted area in the Nuseirat refugee camp	Gaza Strip	Issa Abdul-Hadi al-Batran (40)	Hamas Senior military commander of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in central Gaza, who had survived 4 previous attempts on his life (26 Jan.2009).	Killed by a missile in retaliation for earlier rocket attack on city of Ashkelon. A further 13 Palestinians were injured in the strike.	Israeli Air Force

November 3, 2010	Gaza Strip	Mohammed Nimnim	Allegedly al-Qaeda affiliated, Army of Islam commander	Car explosion, due to either a bomb planted by Israel or an Israeli airstrike.	Israeli Air Force, with Egyptian intelligence.

November 17, 2010	Gaza Strip	Islam Yassin	al-Qaeda affiliated, Army of Islam commander	Israeli airstrike on his car, killing him, his brother, and injuring four others.	Israeli Air Force

January 11, 2011	Gaza Strip	Mohammed A-Najar	Islamic Jihad operative.	Suspected of planning attacks against civilians and launching rockets at Israel Attacked by the Israel Airforce while driving his motorcycle in the Gaza Strip.	Israeli Air Force

April 2, 2011	Ismail Lubbad, Abdullah Lubbad, Muhammad al Dayah	Hamas	Allegedly aiming to kidnap Israeli tourists in Sinai over Passover.	.

April 9, 2011	Gaza Strip	Tayseer Abu Snima	Senior Hamas military commander of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades	Killed along with 2 of his bodyguards by the Israeli air force during a period of escalated rocket fire from Gaza.	Israeli Air Force

July 23, 2011	Tehran	Iran	Darioush Rezaeinejad	Iranian electrical engineer	Killed by unknown gunmen on motorcycle. Rezaeinejad was involved in development of high-voltage switches, which are used in a key component of nuclear warheads.	Mossad (alleged)

August 18, 2011	Gaza Strip	Abu Oud al-Nirab; Khaled Shaath; Imad Hamed	Popular Resistance Committees Commanders	Killed hours after a terrorist attack killed 6 civilians and one soldier in southern Israel. 4 additional members of the group were killed in the strike.	Israeli Air Force, Shin Bet

August 24, 2011	Ismael al-Asmar	PIJ	Allegedly weapons smuggler and militant in Egypt's Sinai, killed just before shooting a Qassam rocket.

September 6, 2011	Khaled Sahmoud	Popular Resistance Committees	Killed after allegedly firing 5 Qassam into Southern Israel

October 29, 2011	Ahmed al-Sheikh Khalil	PIJ Munitions expert	Killed in retaliation for allegedly launching rockets into Israel earlier that day.

November 12, 2011	Tehran	Iran	General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam	The main architect of the Iranian missile system and the founder/father of Iran's deterrent power ballistic missile forces. He was also the chief of the "self-sufficiency" unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps	Killed along with 17 other members of the Revolutionary Guards known as Bid Kaneh explosion. Those who died are known as the "Shahidan Ghadir".	Mossad (alleged)

December 9, 2011	Isam Subahi Isamil Batash	Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades

January 11, 2012	Tehran	Iran	Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan	Iranian nuclear scientist	The bomb that killed Ahmadi-Roshan at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and another unidentified person was a magnetic one and the same as the ones previously used for the assassination of the scientists, and the "...work of the Zionists [Israelis]," deputy Tehran governor Safarali Baratloo said.	Mossad (alleged)

March 9, 2012	Tel al-Hawa	Gaza Strip	Zuhir al-Qaisi; Mahmud Ahmed Hananni	Qaisi was Secretary-General of the Popular Resistance Committees	According to Israeli intelligence, he was planning an imminent attack in the Sinai.	Israeli Air Force

August 5, 2012	Tel al-Sultan Refugee Camp.	Gaza Strip	Nadi Okhal (19); Ahmad Said Ismail (22)	Popular Resistance Committee, Two senior operatives. IDF sources say they were associated with global jihadist movement.	Killed while riding a motor bike. The other passenger was badly wounded.

September 20, 2012	Gaza Strip	Gaza Strip	Anis Abu Mahmoud el-Anin (22); Ashraf Mahmoud Salah (38).	Hamas security officers. Salah belonged to the Popular Resistance Committees	Their car was shelled by aircraft overhead.	Israeli Air Force

October 13, 2012	Jabaliya	Gaza Strip	Hisham Al-Saidni (Abu al-Walid al- Maqdisi) (43/47/53); Ashraf al-Sabah.	Respectively Salafi-jihadist militant leader of al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad and the Mujahedeen Shura Council, and head of Ansar Al-Sunna. Israeli and one Salafi source say they had links with Al-Qaeda.	Killed by a drone-launched rocket while riding a motor bike in company with Jazar. Several civilians, including a 12-year-old boy, were wounded.

October 13, 2012	Khan Yunis	Gaza Strip	Yasser Mohammad al-Atal (23)	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine	Rocket strike while he was riding his motor bike. A second man was critically injured.

October 14, 2012	Gaza City	Gaza Strip	Ezzedine Abu Nasira (23); Ahmad Fatayer (22)	Popular Resistance Committees	Struck by a missile while riding in a tuk-tuk after firing rockets into Israel to avenge deaths resulting from two airstrikes the day before.	Israeli Air Force

November 14, 2012	Gaza City	Gaza Strip	Ahmed Jaabari	Top level Commander of Hamas' military wing Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Number 2 to Mohammed Deif.	Killed in an airstrike at the start of Operation Pillar of Cloud. Led Hamas' 2007 takeover of the Gaza Strip and, according to Israel, was responsible for most attacks on Israel originating in Gaza from about 2006 to 2012, including the capture of Gilad Shalit.

November 15–19, 2012	Gaza Strip	Hab’s Hassan Us Msamch Ahmed Abu Jalal Khaled Shaer Osama Kadi Muhammad Kalb Ramz Harb Yahiyah Abbayah	Hab’s Hassan Us Msamch, was a senior operative and Hamas Bombmaker. Ahmed Abu Jalal, was a Senior Hamas commander of the Hamas central military wing in Al-Muazi.	All of them were killed by IAF airstrike inside their command bunker and weapon storage during Operation Pillar of Defense.

February 12, 2013	Damascus	Syria	Hassan Shateri	Top IRGC General.	Under the pseudonym Hussam Khoshnevis, He was a Head of Iranian IRGC special reconstruction project for Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon.

April 30, 2013	Gaza City	Gaza Strip	Hithem Ziad Ibrahim Masshal (24/25) and three others, one on the bike.	Al Quds Brigades (Israel). Hamas security guard at Al-Shifa Hospital (Hamas version).	Defined by Israel as a Freelance Terror Consultant" and active in different Jihad Salafi terror organisations responsible for two rockets fired towards Eilat on 17 April, he was killed when a rocket hit him on his motorbike.

December 4, 2013	Beirut	Lebanon	Hassan al-Laqqis	Senior Hezbollah Military Commander. Chief of technology officer and in charge of the Arms Procurement and Strategic Weapons for the group.	Shot and Killed by gunmen in the head with a silenced gun outside his home and car. Israel never took responsibility, but it is widely suspected Mossad committed it.	Mossad

January 22, 2014	Beit Hanoun	Gaza Strip	Ahmad Zaanin; Mahmoud Yousef Zaanin	PFLP;PIJ	The relatives were held responsible for rocket attacks into southern Israel. Only Ahmed was admitted by PIJ to be a member.	Israeli Air Force

February 9, 2014	Deir al-Balah	Gaza Strip	Abdullah Kharti	Popular Resistance Committees member.	Regarded by IDF as involved with rocket fire episodes. Hit and critically wounded, with a friend, while riding on a motorcycle.

March 3, 2014	farmland near Beit Hanoun	Gaza Strip	Mus’ab Musa Za’aneen (21); Sharif Nasser (31)	PIJ	(Israeli version):Had just fired homemade rocket landing in a field south of Ashkelon (Palestinian version): It was not known if either were militants.

June 11, 2014	Gaza Strip	Mohammed Ahmed Alarur/Awar (30/33) of Beit Lahiya; Hamada Hassan, a Beit Lahia resident (25) was critically wounded.	Hamas policeman. Salafist cell leader (Israeli description) Described by IDF sources as a global jihad-affiliated terrorist planning attacks against Israel responsible for a rocket salvo on Sderot that interrupted the silence of a Passover holiday.	Alarur was hit by a missile while riding a motorbike. A car nearby was also struck.	Israel Air Force, Shin Bet.

June 27, 2014	al-Shati refugee camp	Gaza Strip	Muhammad al-Fasih and; Usama al-Hassumi	Two Senior operatives. Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades	Struck by two helicopter-launched missiles while driving a black Kia vehicle. Two other people were wounded.	Israeli Air Force

July 5, 2014	Damascus	Syria	Mwafaq Badiyeh	Samir Kuntar's right-hand man and the personal liaison officer between Samir Kuntar and Hezbollah.	He was killed by an explosive device planted on his car by "Mossad agents." While driving on the main road between Quneitra and Damascus.	Mossad (alleged)

July 8, 2014	Gaza Strip	Muhammad Shaaban	Muhammad Shaaban is a head of Hamas Special Forces Naval Commando Unit in Gaza	He was killed along with 2 passengers when his car was hit by IAF air strike followed by attempted infiltration by 5 Hamas Naval Frogmen inside Israel Beach in Gaza border.	Israeli Air Force

July 27, 2014	Gaza Strip	Salah Abu Hassanein Hafez Mohammad Hamad Hussein Abd al-Qader Muheisin Akram Sha’ar Mahmoud Ziada Osama al-Haya Ahmad Sahmoud Abdallah Allah’ras Shaaban Dakhdoukh Mahmoud Sinwar	Salah Abu Hassanein leader and spokesperson of Islamic Jihad in Gaza. Hafez Mohammad Hamad was Top level Hamas commander for Islamic Jihad in the Beit Hanoun (northern Gaza) area who is directly responsible for the rocket fire on Sderot during escalation leading up to Operation Protective Edge.	All of them were killed by IAF airstrike inside of their house along with their comrades and entire family and also inside their buried Gaza tunnels.

August 3, 2014	Jabalia Camp	Gaza Strip	Ahmad al-Mabhouh	Nephew of slain Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in charge of engineering and destruction officer in Hamas. Among other things, he was responsible for hiding rockets before they were launched at Israel, preparing complex explosive devices and planning armed attacks against Israeli targets.	The IDF and Shin Bet attacked a building in Jabaliya on Saturday night, killing Hamas operative Ahmad al-Mabhouh, the nephew of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was inside.	Israeli Armed Forces, Shin Bet

August 19, 2014	Gaza City	Gaza Strip	Mohammed Deif (failed attempt)	Chief of staff and Supreme Military Commander of Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The main architect of Hamas's tunnel system.	Several IAF missiles struck Deif's 6 storey home. His wife Widad (27), 7 month old son Ali and daughter Sarah (3) were killed in the strike.	Israeli Air Force

August 21, 2014	Rafah	Gaza Strip	Raed al Atar Rafah Division Senior commander. Mohammed Abu Shmallah Rafah Division Senior commander. Mohammed Barhoum Rafah Division Senior commander.	3 Hamas Senior Military commanders	Struck by a pair of F-16 one-ton bombs guided through a window of the building where they had been located.

January 18, 2015	al-Amal Farms, Quneitra District	Syria	Jihad Mughniyah Mohammed Ahmed Issa Abu Ali Reza Al Tabatabai Mohammed Ali Allah Dadi Ismail Al Ashhab Abu Abbas Al Hijazi Mohammed Ali Hassan Abu Al Hassan Ghazi Ali Dhawi Ali Hussein Ibrahim Along with 6 other Iranian and Hezbollah high-ranking officers	Jihad Mughniyah was a son of a slain Hezbollah supreme military commander Imad Mughniyah. Mohammed Ahmed Issa was Head of Security and Operations.	Struck and hit by Israel Air Force Nimrod/Hellfire missile Apache Helicopter during their reconnaissance and inspection mission along with Israeli–Syrian ceasefire line at the Golan Heights.

December 21, 2015	Damascus	Syria	Samir Kuntar Farhan Issam Shaalan Mohammed Riza Fahemi Mir Ahmad Ahmadi along with several high ranking IRGC commanders and Hezbollah members	Samir Kuntar was a senior Hezbollah commander and also a convicted murderer of an Israeli family in 1979, held in Israeli prison for the next 30 years before released in a prisoner swap in 2008.	According to the Israeli defence establishment, they were meeting in order to plan the next round of Iran-sponsored terrorist operation against Israel from the Golan Heights areas recently secured by the Syrian military.

December 17, 2016	Sfax	Tunisia	Mohammed Al Zawari	Mohammed Al Zawari was a Chief of Hamas drone program and an Aviation Engineer expert. He also worked on the development and production of Hezbollah drones.	He was shot dead in the head 6 times by using guns equipped with silencer just in front of his house, who located in Sfax 270 km Southeast of Tunis.	Hamas accused Mossad

March 24, 2017	Gaza Strip	Palestine	Mazen Fuqaha	Mazen Fuqaha was a Senior Hamas Operative. He was also a Senior commander of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas Military wing.	According to Hamas, he was shot dead 4 times in the head and chest by Israeli Special Forces by using silenced weapons guided by Shin Bet Agents and Gaza operatives.	Israeli Special Forces/ Shin Bet

April 21, 2018	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	Fadi al-Batsh	Batash was a Hamas-affiliated Palestinian engineer from the Gaza Strip.	Shot dead by two people on a motorcycle when he was leaving a mosque after his morning prayers.	Mossad is suspected.

Sentence(s)

Widespread speculation, which Dubai allegations support that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed by Israeli Mossad agents.

final_sentence: Widespread speculation, which Dubai allegations support that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed by Israeli Mossad agents.