Mohammed Deif whose birth name is Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Masri is a Palestinian militant and supreme military commander of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas.
Mohammad Masri was born in 1965 in the Khan Yunis Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip which was set up after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and he is 58 years old. He joined Hamas in 1990 and later became known as Mohammed Deif. His name Deif means guest in Arabic, owing to his nomadic lifestyle.
Despite being the Israeli military’s ‘most wanted’ man since 1995 for orchestrating the killings of Israeli soldiers and civilians, he is known to have survived seven assassination attempts in the past two decades. In the first assassination attempt on his life, he is thought to have lost an eye, and in the second, to have lost a part of his arm; he is thought to be handicapped.
Deif’s wife, 7-month infant son, and 3-year-old daughter were killed by an Israeli airstrike in 2014. The most recent Israeli attempt to kill Deif was during Operation Guardian of the Walls in May 2021.
The United States Department of State added Deif to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists on September 8, 2015.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
