Who was the mastermind behind the reverse engineering of Israeli weapons in Hamas?

report Mehr News quoted by Al-Jazeera, “Ibrahim Hossein Abunja” nicknamed “Abul Moatasam” is one of the most prominent commanders of Izz al-Din al-Qassam battalions, the military branch Hamas is included in the reverse engineering project of Israeli weapons, which was killed in an explosion in one of Al-Qassam headquarters in Rafah in 2017.

In the mid-sixties of the 20th century, Ibrahim Abunaja lived in a struggling and poor Palestinian family in the Al-Nujiyah area in He was born in the occupied territories in 1948 and completed his primary and secondary education in UNRWA schools. He was once arrested by the Zionists in 1992 for participating in activities related to the first Palestinian intifada.

This Palestinian fighter studied English for 3 years and then studied Arabic and in He received his bachelor’s degree in this field in 1991. Abunja joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1985 and was arrested in 1992 for his activities in the first intifada and spent 3 and a half years in the prisons of the occupation regime.

His activities in the ranks of al-Qassam battalions started with the beginning of the first intifada in 2000. Abunja was one of the most prominent engineers who played a role in making weapons for al-Qassam, and his influence can be seen in the advanced weapons of al-Qassam battalions.

While Abuja had a house consisting of 2 rooms, one of his rooms was dedicated to military activities. and turned it into a workshop for making weapons. He held several positions in al-Qassam battalions, the last of which was the command of the engineering unit in the Rafah brigade. He also played a prominent role in most of Al-Qassam’s military operations against the occupiers inside the Gaza Strip.

Ebrahim Abunja was one of the few experts in explosives engineering and served many Palestinian factions in the military industry. And he participated in exchanging experiences with them, especially with the Islamic Jihad movement, popular resistance, etc.

Abunja was known for his jihadist and heroic stances and sacrifices to defend the Palestinians. Once in 2006, while training a group of Al-Qassam battalion fighters to fire a hand grenade, one of the grenades accidentally fell near the Al-Qassam forces, and Abu Naja jumped towards the grenade in order to save the rest of the fighters and was severely injured. He was injured and suffered from the injury for two years, but after recovery, he immediately resumed his jihad work in al-Qassam battalions.

This prominent Palestinian mujahid was wanted by the Zionists and was assassinated several times, but every time he was killed. He lives in good health, to the extent that his companions jokingly said that he has seven lives.

During the 2008 war, when Abu Naja was one of the commanders of al-Qassam battalions, Zionist fighters destroyed his house in the refugee camp. They targeted Al-Shoborah in Rafah. He was also assassinated in the 2014 war and was injured many times during his jihadi career.

He was considered one of the most prominent officials of the reverse engineering of Israeli weapons in al-Qassam battalions and the Zionist rockets and missiles that They were shot at Gaza, examined and their healthy parts were used for engineering work in the manufacture of weapons.

This influential Palestinian fighter finally died on June 7, 2017 at the age of 51 while working in one of the Al-Qassam was martyred in an explosion. The funeral ceremony of his body witnessed the significant presence of political and military officials of the Palestinian resistance, including Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of Hamas.