This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Jamal Abu Samhadana (Arabic: جمال أبو سمهدانة, 8 February 1963 – 8 June 2006), from Rafah in the Gaza Strip, was the founder and leader of the Popular Resistance Committees,[1] a former Fatah and Tanzim member, and number two on Israel's list of wanted terrorists.
"[5] The appointment "sparked new criticism from the U.S. and Israel and intensified the struggle for control of some 70,000 Palestinian security forces" between Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas.
[6] Abbas subsequently issued a decree banning the formation of the Executive Force that Abu Samhadana was to have headed.
[13] Analysts trace the Samhadana assassination to the rocket fire (on Sderot), through a series of IDF shellings, rocket attacks and commando raids on Gaza that killed over three dozen people, mostly civilians, to the capture of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit on June 25.
[8] Two days after Shalit's capture, the IDF launched Operation Summer Rains killing over 400 Palestinians and wounding 650.