Abdullah Barghouti
Abdullah Ghaleb Barghouti (, born 1979) is a Palestinian leading commander in Hamas' armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, in the West Bank. He was also one of the organization's chief bomb makers. Barghouti is currently serving 67 life-term sentences in Israeli prison. Early life Barghouti hails from the Barghouti clan based in the Ramallah area of the West Bank. His family is from the town of Beit Rima. Barghouti was born in Kuwait in 1979. He is a relative of Marwan Barghouti. Hamas In 1999, Barghouti traveled to the West Bank where he joined the Hamas paramilitary group. He is considered by Ynet as Hamas' "engineer", and designed and built weapons for numerous attacks against Israeli civilians. Among the attacks he was involved in were the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing, the double suicide bombing in the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall, the Café Moment bombing, the 2002 Rishon LeZion bombing, the Hebrew University bombing, the Allenby Street bus bombing, the Pi Glilot bombing attempt, and an attack on railway tracks in Lod in which he personally laid the explosive charge. A total of 66 Israelis were killed and 500 injured in attacks that Barghouti was involved in. In late