Ahmed Ghandour (1967-14 November 2023) was commander of Hamas' Northern Gaza Brigade and a member of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades' General Military Council.
Biography[]
Ahmed Ghandour was born in Jaffa, Israel in 1967, and he was detained by the Israelis from 1988 to 1994 for his terrorist activities. He was then detained by the Palestinian Authority from 1995 to 2000, but he was released after the outbreak of the Second Intifada. Ghandour survived four assassination attempts by Israel throughout the 2000s and 2010s, becoming a close aide to Hamas bombmaker Adnan al-Ghoul in 2003 and commander of the Northern Branch of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades by 2004. By 2017, he was a close confidant of Mohammed Deif. He was killed by an Israeli airstrike in November 2023 during the Israel-Hamas War.