Officials said Dudin, 45, was responsible for numerous suicide bombings
in Israel. In 1995, the Palestinian Authority imprisoned Dudin for five
years, Middle East Newsline reported. He was released during the start of the Palestinian insurgency.
The Israeli military said Dudin was responsible for the killing of 10
Israelis and the injury of hundreds of others. A military statement said
Dudin was head of the Hamas military network in the area of Mount Hebron.
"Many of those working with Dudin were arrested and imprisoned over the
years, while he was able to hide in various locations and evade arrest until
this morning," the military said in a May 28 statement.
[The killing of Dudin was followed by a major Palestinian Authority
security operation against Hamas in the West Bank city of Kalkilya.
Palestinian sources said at least five people, most of them Hamas
operatives, were injured in the shootout on May 30.]
Dudin was said to have planned to attack an Israeli train that was
traveling from Tel Aviv to Beersheba. He was also said to have ordered Hamas
attacks on Israeli vehicles in the West Bank and southern Israel.
"Among the senior terrorists who worked with Duddin, were Yehya Ayash,
Mohi Eddin Sharif, Ibrahim Hamed and Saleh Talakhme," the military said.
