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Monday, March 15, 2010     FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

Israel arrests Hamas military commander wanted in suicide attacks that killed 70

TEL AVIV — Israel has captured a Hamas military chief.   

The Israel Army has reported the arrest of a senior member of Hamas's military wing in the West Bank. The commander was identified as Maher Uda, wanted in Israel for more than a decade in connection with suicide strikes that killed more than 70 Israelis.

"Uda is one of Hamas' founders in Ramallah," the Israeli military said on March 14, Middle East Newsline reported.


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Uda, 47, was said to have been arrested on March 13 in Ramallah. Officials said Uda built a major Hamas military cell in the 1990s, which also abducted Palestinians suspected of cooperating with Israel.

In 1998, Uda was arrested by the Palestinian Authority. He was released after several months in prison.

"By the time he was released, he was already considered a senior suspect wanted by Israel," the military said.

Officials said Uda, regarded as the last of the fugitive Palestinian insurgency commanders in the West Bank, headed Hamas's military network in Ramallah. They said Uda provided funds and orders to the Hamas cell based in the West Bank town of Beit Laqya that was linked to the killing of 10 Israelis.

"He had been under long surveillance and he did not resist arrest," an official said.

The military said Uda's arrest was the work of the Israel Security Agency, also responsible for operations in the West Bank. The statement said ISA and the military have sought to block Hamas efforts to revive its military network.

"Uda's arrest has been the final stage in thwarting Hamas' military headquarters in Ramallah, which executed various terror attacks and is responsible for the murder of more than 70 Israelis," the military said. "The arrest was made possible by pinpoint intelligence information provided by ISA."



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