Sheikh Nizar Rayyan who was assassinated Thursday in an IAF strike was considered the mufti of the Izzadin Al Kassam Brigades - the Hamas military wing. He was in Israel’s top 5 targets in Gaza. Rayyan issued religious rulings, fatwas, allowing females to act as suicide bombers.
He was assassinated one day after appearing on Hamas TV from a mosque in Gaza.
He was close to Salah Shahade, the former Hamas master bombmaker and leader of Izzadin Al Kassam assassinated in July 2002. Rayyan’s assassination resembles that of Shahade, whose building was completely destroyed on top of its occupants by a one-tonne IAF bomb.
Rayyan led the Hamas revolt against Fatah rule in the Gaza Strip in 2007, and raised the ire of the Palestinian Authority when he promised that his men would eventually pray in the Muqata, the PA’s headquarters in Ramallah.
He sent his own son on a suicide attack mission against the Israeli Gaza Strip settlement of Alei Sinai.
He was logistically involved in the Ashdod container terrorist attack in March 14, 2004 in which 10 port workers lost their lives.
He told Reuters: “We will never recognize Israel. There is nothing called Israel, neither in reality nor in the imagination.”
He had four wives.
Here’s a video of him:
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