Bin Hamid emerged as prominent figure of anti-Gaddafi forces during the First Libyan Civil War in 2011 as the leader of a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated battalion that included militants who had returned from Afghanistan.
[1] In the aftermath of the civil war, Bin Hamid commanded the Libya Shield brigade, deployed by the General National Congress as a buffer.
[2] At the outbreak of the Second Libyan Civil War, Bin Hamid was one of the most prominent leaders of the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries (SCBR), a coalition of Islamist and jihadist militant groups[1] fighting against the forces of Khalifa Haftar.
[3] Ben Hamid featured prominently in a 2014 video by al-Qa'ida-aligned jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia in Libya (ASL), including sitting next to ASL's leader Muhammad al-Zahawi and praising military successes against Haftar's armies.
[3] Bin Hamid was reportedly killed in a December 2016 airstrike, according to interrogations of the Shura Council's spokesman by Libyan National Army.