Yahya Ayyash, for whom the group is named, was Hamas' top bombmaker before his death as a result of a bomb-laden cellphone in January 1996. In early 2014 five rockets headed toward the city of Ashkelon were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. In response to the rocket fire, the Israeli Air Force struck a number of terror sites in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Yahya Abd-al-Latif Ayyash was the chief bombmaker of Hamas and the leader of the West Bank battalion of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. In that capacity, he earned the nickname the Engineer. He was assassinated by Shin Bet on 5 January 1996. Ayyash built the bombs used in a number of Hamas suicide attacks: the Mehola Junction bombing, the Afula Bus massacre, the Hadera central station massacre, the Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre, the Egged bus 36 bombing, the Ramat Gan bus 20 bombing, and the Jerusalem bus 26…
Yahya Ayyash Brigades
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