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Either he will be eliminated, or he will conduct the next campaign against Israel: the cruel shadow man from Gaza

Marwan Issa became a child in a refugee camp near present-day Muhammad Daf's terror launcher, as deputy head of Hamas' military wing.

His proximity to Sinuar and his responsibility for the intensification of Hamas and the special operations of the terrorist organization make him a key figure in the Gaza Strip, and a particularly challenging moving target for the security forces.

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Amir Bohbot

Saturday, 20 March 2021, 14:00 Updated: 14:11

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In the video: Yahya Sinwar won another term as Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip (Walla!)

Palestinian networks were flooded this week with an unusual picture of the top Hamas in Gaza after the internal elections, which almost ended in a jarring loss of a few votes for leader Yahya Sinwar.

The image is intended to show unity and reconciliation after the tension between the factions.

Sinuar finally maintained his chair and status thanks to re-voting and operating pressure levers on the personalities involved.

Of the 20 photographers, led by Sinuar alongside two women, one most prominent figure stood out: Marwan Abdel Karim Issa.

This is how his name appears on the population list in the computers of the government operations coordinator in the territories.

In Gaza, he is called Abu al-Braa.

His current position is the deputy head of Hamas' military wing and the man who took advantage of the industrial calm in the Southern Command for the purpose of building the terrorist organization's powerhouse in recent years.

In the picture he chose to stand behind everyone and unlike everyone else he wore a protective mask against the corona.

Doubt keeps rules, Doubt does not want to be exposed in public, as befits a figure swimming in the shadows away from the long arms of the GSS and the IDF.

It is conducted under the understanding that at any moment the bowl can be overturned and someone in Israel can order its elimination.

After all, he is the man who will lead Hamas' next campaign against the IDF.

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Issa wears a mask from behind, in a photo of the top Hamas (Photo: official website, screenshot)

Muhammad Daf, who has survived numerous assassinations many times, was and remains the commander of Hamas' unchallenged and revered military arm.

In the summer of 2014, after a failed attempt to eliminate him, he distributed an audio tape in his voice to prove he was alive.

Page is physically limited after a number of injuries and a series of surgeries, and lives in secret, so the one who actually runs the military arm is his deputy: Marwan Issa, whose house was bombed during the operation by Air Force fighter jets.

Defense officials and Gaza experts say that according to Daf, nothing will happen, but as part of the desire to maintain a high level of compartmentalization, it can be estimated that a significant part of the decisions are made by Issa independently and some in consultation or approval.

Issa can be defined as a "mediator" or "mediator" between Daf's extremism and preparations for a future war against Israel, and the pragmatic process that January is passing through the Gaza Strip.

This is part of the settlement between Israel and Hamas, which is led on the Israeli side by none other than the head of the National Security Council, Meir Ben-Shabbat, who as a senior member of the Shin Bet carried out targeted assassinations.

Issa on the day of Gilad Shalit's release, October 2011 (Photo: official website, screenshot)

After the assassination of Hamas chief of staff Ahmad Jabari in Operation Pillar of Cloud in 2012, pictures of him from the past were distributed, with none other than Marwan Issa. According to Gaza experts in the Israeli intelligence community, he was the one who actually led the fight against the IDF. Talks in Cairo with Israel mediated by Egypt.

The photos released after Jabari's assassination helped Issa prove his closeness to the leadership, his importance to commanders at the top of the military wing on which the Hamas leadership bases all its power and only then his sympathy in the public.

Thus, in fact, Jabari's assassination paved the way for Abu al-Braa to take on the post of Muhammad Daf.

The boy from the refugee camp who became the leader of the resistance

Marwan Issa's full story begins with the outbreak of the War of Independence.

His family fled a village south of Ashkelon and settled in the center of the Gaza Strip.

She was later one of the founders of the Al Bureij refugee camp.

In 1968, Marwan was born in the Wink camp, hating Israel from the environment.

In 1987, Hamas was founded, and 19-year-old Issa very quickly joined the idea of ​​resistance, participating in ideological and terrorist activities against Israel, but not in institutionalized activities.

During the 1990s, he was caught in a wave of arrests in the refugee camp and transferred to GSS interrogations. Even then it was clear that he was a particularly tough man. After serving five years in an Israeli prison, he was released - but as a different person. The small-scale terrorists of an organized organization called the Izz ad-Din al-Qassem Brigades, joined as an active member of the organization's military wing.In those days when Hamas served as a framework for extremist religious ideology it began to climb up the road, to this day it is an integral part of the organization.

After serving five years in an Israeli prison, he was released - but as a different person.

Issa (Photo: official website, screenshot)

In January 1996, Yahya Ayash, the "engineer," was assassinated, and Hamas responded with a series of deadly attacks in the home front of the State of Israel.

Issa stood out even then and was one of the planners and some claim that the actual operations of killing Israeli civilians.

But the political reality and Israeli policy was different and in the spirit of the Oslo Accords he was arrested by the Palestinian security forces and imprisoned for several years in a Palestinian prison, then defined as having a "revolving door", incarceration with vacations and visits by friends and family.

At the beginning of the second intifada, with the explicit instruction of Yasser Arafat, the prison doors were opened and the prisoners, including Hamas operatives, were released to take part in the terrorist attacks on Israel.

Issa was one of those assassins who went free and promoted the Hamas terrorist machine, mostly in planning but there are those who claim that he was also one of those who pulled the trigger.

He was constantly engaged in the process of transitioning from disorganized squads and battalions to a semi-military arm organized by companies, battalions and brigades with a clear hierarchy, and financial support.

Issa was slowly sucked into the space created and began to dedicate himself to the world of military developments.

Qassams in Gaza, 2016 (Photo: Reuters)

Issa developed in two axes.

The first, the ladder of ranks in the organization and the class, and the second the technological-industrial axis.

After the assassination of Adnan al-Roll in 2004, who was defined as one of the senior members of the Hamas military wing in Gaza, Daf's right-hand man, an expert in the preparation of explosives and the father of Qassam rockets, there was a gap in the military industry.

Former military intelligence sources say Issa was slowly being sucked into the space created and began to dedicate himself to the world of military developments.

The process he went through did not change his tumultuous temperament and his character is perceived as murderous even when it comes to his people.

In 2014, he pursued persecuting Hamas operatives.

One escaped to Sinai and the other two were caught just before crossing the tunnels under the Philadelphi Axis on his explicit instruction.

The fate of the three is unknown to this day.

A year earlier, as part of a clan quarrel, he was among those who broke into a prison in Gaza to carry out blood feuds between clans to which his family was linked.

With the IDF, the Mossad and the GSS in the background succeeding in disrupting and thwarting huge arms smuggling into Gaza, a senior Southern Command officer said in April 2016 that Hamas was trying to develop new weapons, including 250kg barrels that could be sent to sea, unmanned aerial vehicles and range The rockets. Issa's name stood out well as one involved in the process of setting up and turning ideas into action. Another point that must not be ignored is Issa's ability to maneuver and repeatedly compromise Muhammad Daf's extremism with Sinuar's pragmatic agenda. level of weld plastic metal. "

in 2017 rose Sinoar power and surrounded himself with several associates, including two of his cell in an Israeli prison, my spirits Mushtaha, one of the founders of Hamas' military wing was involved in the kidnapping of Nachshon Waxman, and Tawfiq Abu Naim. the third is Isa, Even then, his closeness to the new leader was clear, and in the background the image of political guys like Mahmoud a-Zahar, Khalil al-Khaya, who appeared in the center of the picture published last week, but their weight diminished, resonated.

Hamas operatives conduct maneuvers near the Gaza Strip fence, 2018 (Photo: Walla! NEWS, -)

After the raid by Hamas divers on Zikim Beach in Operation Eitan in the summer of 2014, combined with videos and overt maritime activity by the Navy Nuhaba (an elite unit in Hamas), it was clear to everyone that the next campaign would look different and full of surprises, not only in the navy or in the air. In the technological field following the development of special means.

Issa, jumped between the security and political worlds and as one of Sinwar's associates he was sent in the summer of 2017 to Cairo, to negotiate with Israel through Egypt.

A week earlier, Ben Shabbat had visited and conveyed messages from the political echelon in Israel ahead of the possibility of the release of prisoners, in exchange for the bodies of soldiers Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, but the efforts did not mature due to Sinuar's tough positions and Israeli government red lines.

A year later, in November 2018, as part of the escalation rounds in the Gaza Strip and the 44-hour airstrikes, there was an impression that Issa would be eliminated in a moment, but that was just a feeling - the political echelon and the IDF thought it was right not to degenerate the area. To harm only Hamas' infrastructure, reinforced by al-Mayadin, who claimed that a special and agitated IDF force had infiltrated the Gaza Strip under a false identity in order to eliminate Muhammad Daf and Marwan Issa and was exposed by a Hamas force.

An exchange of fire ensued and a chase ensued, during which Lt. Col. A. was killed.

"He knows he is in Israel's sights and is acting accordingly, but never resilience."

8200 soldiers (Photo: IDF Spokesman)

In January 2019, the Al-Ahbar newspaper in Lebanon reported that Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip had thwarted an Israeli plan to spy on the leaders of the organization's military wing, the al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

The Lebanese newspaper also claimed that the IDF used electronic devices and did not rely solely on surveillance of mobile devices. One of the targets of the espionage, according to the report, was Issa. Sources interviewed for the article told Al-Akhbar that Hamas members had neutralized an eavesdropping device near his home. Al-Ahbar noted that security forces arrested the man who allegedly implanted the device and then discovered additional spy systems planted in the area and elsewhere, including another device discovered in the vehicle of one of Issa's companions. The

war of minds and shadows between Israel and Hamas continues A reminder of the growing threat in the Gaza Strip was received on February 22 this year, when the IDF Spokesman issued a statement on Israeli naval activity, identifying that morning "naval activity that posed a potential threat to naval vessels. IDF fighters Identify the activity and thwart it. "Similar to a secret naval tunnel built off the coast of Gaza, it was exposed by a Navy intelligence ship in 2018 and destroyed by the Air Force. That tunnel allowed Hamas elite force divers to secretly go out to sea.

" In practice, it is today one Hamas' most powerful figures in the Gaza Strip.

Does not speak but mostly does.

Hence its power.

He proves to everyone when he promises he also fulfills, "said a former senior security official," He not only plays on the military and security field, but also on the political level.

His power stems not only from his proximity to Sinuar but from the page and other senior officials.

He knows that he is always in Israel's sights and therefore conducts himself accordingly - at a very, very high level of compartmentalization.

But history proves that resilience is never possible. "

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