Wissam Abu Hussein Farhat (Arabic: وسام أبو حسين فرحات, romanized: Wisām Abū Ḥusayn Faraḥāt; died December 2, 2023) was a Head of Hamas's Shejaiya Battalion.
He was released from Israeli prison in November 2005, three weeks after his brother Rawad was killed by Israel.
[2] On December 2, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed Farhat in an airstrike during the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.
The IDF identified Farhat as the commander of Hamas's Shejaiya battalion responsible leading the Nahal Oz attack during the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and for an incident during the Battle of Shuja'iyya in 2014 in which 7 IDF soldiers were killed, including Oron Shaul.
[1] On December 8, 2023 the military wing of Hamas, Al-Qassam Brigades, published a video showing footage of close-range battles in Shuja'iyya that resulted in the destruction of an IDF tank, and a Qassam militant is heard shouting "for your sake, Abu Hussein!"