By Kifah Zaboun Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat- Contacting Salim Thabit, the senior official in Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Brigades and commander of the Imad Mughniyeh groups, required much more than the usual time it takes to contact any of the brigades' officials or any other Palestinian official. It took two days. His cell phone is off constantly and he switches it on at a predetermined time to receive a call from a known source. The people of the Gaza Strip know him very well. He is responsible for one of the most qualitative operations in Gaza, the Ashdod Port operation of 2004 in which 11 Israelis were killed. Israeli intelligence service (Shabak) knows him. He is the terrorist topping list of those wanted for liquidation who has left his fingerprints in the West Bank and inside Israel. "Shabak" tried several times during the...
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