Nizar Rayan

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Nizar Rayan (also: Nizar Ghayan ) ( Arabic نزار ريان, DMG Nizār Rayān ; * March 6, 1959 ; † January 1, 2009 in Jabaliya ) was a Palestinian military commander and one of ten leaders of Hamas .

Rayan studied in Saudi Arabia and Jordan and received a PhD in Hadith Studies in Khartoum in 1994 . He was then a professor at the Islamic University in Gaza City . In the following years he ran a movement of human shields for houses that were threatened by air raids.

Rayan belonged to the inner leadership of Hamas and was the liaison between the military and political wings of Hamas. He was killed in a bombing raid on his home by Israeli warplanes as part of Operation Cast Lead . With him, two of his four wives, four of his twelve children and another 13 family members and eleven residents of the house died. The Israeli military confirmed that the missile attack was aimed at Rayan with the aim of killing him. Rayan allegedly ordered his own son to carry out a suicide attack in the former Jewish settlement of Elei Sinai on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip in 2002 . A total of 11 people were killed in a double suicide attack on March 14, 2004. Rayan is said to be responsible for further attacks in Israel and was a close confidante of the commander of the Qassam Brigades , Ahmed al-Jabari . He also drafted the plan for the Hamas coup against Fatah in July 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hairetz.com: Israel kills third Hamas leader since the start of Gaza offensive ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (January 4, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haaretz.com
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Nizar Rayan on EMM News Explorer @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / press.jrc.it
  3. ^ Arabic website of the Al-Arabiya Canal
  4. ↑ Important Hamas leader killed in Gaza. The impotence of Arab diplomacy . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from January 3, 2009
  5. ↑ Senior Hamas leader dies in an air strike at Spiegel Online , January 2, 2009
  6. ^ Spiegel-Online: High-ranking Hamas leader dies in an air strike on January 2, 2009
  7. ↑ NYT : "Israel Pursues Diplomacy but Presses Attacks" , 1 January 2009
  8. ↑ Deutschlandfunk : News on January 2, 2009, 01:00
  9. ↑ Airstrike on refugee camp kills Hamas commander on CNN , January 2, 2009
  10. ↑ Hamas leader killed on n-tv , January 1, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Rayan, Nizar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ghayan, Nizar; نزار ريان (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian military commander and Hamas leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1959
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2009
Place of death Jabaliya