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Hamas Terrorist Directed Attacks from Prison
(Ha'aretz) Chaim Levinson - Ibrahim Hamid, a senior Hamas military commander in the West Bank, planned and saw to the carrying out of a shooting in the West Bank a year ago despite being in solitary confinement in an Israeli prison for the past five years. Hamid was arrested in May 2006 and convicted of being responsible for the deaths of 46 Israelis in suicide bombings during the second intifada. According to the Israel Security Agency, Hamid is, in fact, responsible for the deaths of 90 Israelis. Last week, the Central District Court extended Hamid's solitary confinement by an additional six months. Information submitted by the state to support its request indicated the existence of recent intelligence "pointing to his involvement in planning, from prison, a shooting attack in which two Israelis were injured on September 1, 2010, at Rimonim Junction" when shot at from a passing car.