2010s
Date | Place | Target | Description | Action | Executor |
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January 12, 2010 | Iran | Masoud Alimohammadi | Iranian nuclear scientist | Killed in a car bomb. | Mossad (Alleged) |
January 19, 2010 | Dubai | Mahmoud al-Mabhouh | Hamas senior military commander, believed to have been involved in smuggling weapons and explosives into Gaza. | Widely reported to have been killed by Israeli intelligence members. Israel stated that there is no proof of its involvement, and refused to confirm or deny the allegations. Dubai police report that Israeli agents used Australian, French, British, Irish, and Dutch passports. | Mossad (Speculation) |
July 31, 2010 | Gaza Strip | Issa al-Batran | Hamas military commander in central Gaza, thought to have been involved in manufacturing rockets | Killed in retaliation for earlier rocket attack on city of Ashkelon | IAF |
November 3, 2010 | Gaza Strip | Mohammed Nimnim | al-Qaeda affiliated, Army of Islam commander | Car explosion, due to either a bomb planted by Israel or an Israeli airstrike. | IAF, with Egyptian intelligence |
November 17, 2010 | Gaza Strip | Islam Yassin | al-Qaeda affiliated, Army of Islam commander | Israeli airstrike on his car, killing him, his brother, and injuring four others. | IAF |
November 29, 2010 | Iran | Majid Shahriari | Iranian nuclear scientist | Killed in a car bomb. According to the German newspaper Der Spiegel Israel was behind the killing. | Mossad (Alleged) |
November 29, 2010 | Iran | Attempted killing of Fereydoon Abbasi. | Iranian nuclear scientist | Wounded in a car bomb. | Mossad (Alleged) |
January 11, 2011 | Gaza Strip | Mohammed A-Najar | Islamic Jihad operative, suspected of planning attacks against civilians and launching rockets at Israel | Attacked by the Israel Airforce while driving his motorcycle in the Gaza Strip. | IAF |
April 9, 2011 | Gaza Strip | Tayseer Abu Snima | Senior Hamas commander | Killed along with 2 of his bodyguards by the Israeli air force during a period of escalated rocket fire from Gaza. He was the most senior Hamas commander killed since 2009. | IAF |
July 23, 2011 | Iran | Darioush Rezaeinejad | Iranian nuclear scientist | Killed by unknown gunmen on motorcycle. The German Newspaper Der Spiegel claimed Mossad was behind the operation. He is the third Iranian nuclear scientist killed since 2010. | Mossad (Alleged) |
August 18, 2011 | Gaza Strip | Abu Oud al-Nirab and Khaled Shaath | Popular Resistance Committees Commanders | Killed hours after a terrorist attack killed 7 Israelis in southern Israel. 4 additional members of the group were killed in the strike. | IAF, Shin Bet |
January 11, 2012 | Iran | Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan | Iranian nuclear scientist | The bomb that killed Ahmadi-Roshan at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, and another unidentified person was a magnetic one and the same as the ones previously used for the assassination of the scientists, and the "...work of the Zionists ," deputy Tehran governor Safarali Baratloo said. | Mossad (Alleged) |
March 9, 2012 | Gaza Strip | Zuhir al-Qaisi | Secretary-General of the Popular Resistance Committees | According to Israeli intelligence, he was planning an imminent attack. | IAF |
November 14, 2012 | Gaza Strip | Ahmed Jaabari | Commander of Hamas' military wing | Killed in an airstrike at the start of Operation Pillar of Cloud. Led Hamas' 2007 takeover of the Gaza Strip and, according to Israel, was responsible for most attacks on Israel originating in Gaza from about 2006 to 2012, including the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit. | IAF |
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