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[1] Mazini was in charge of negotiation affairs dealing with captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

[2] In a 2006 sermon, he criticized Pope Benedict XVI over the latter's remarks on Islam, saying that the pontiff was "ignorant and stupid", "criminal and arrogant", and "a cruel man, spilling blood, who strove to kill".

"[5] Mazini was killed in an airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 16 October 2023 during the Israel–Hamas war.