Ziad al-Nakhalah

ifmat - Ziad al-Nakhalah

Ziad al-Nakhalah is the U.S.-designated secretary-general of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a Palestinian terrorist group largely based in the Gaza Strip

Country:

Lebanon  

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Ziad al-Nakhalah is the U.S.-designated secretary-general of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a Palestinian terrorist group largely based in the Gaza Strip. Nakhalah assumed the leadership of PIJ in September 2018 after serving as deputy secretary-general for more than two decades;

The U.S. Department of State has accused Nakhalah of cultivating “strong relations with the Government of Iran.” After Nakhalah assumed the PIJ leadership in September 2018, the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat wrote that Iran feared that newly appointed deputy secretary-general Mohammad al-Hindi was more sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and might try to sway PIJ away from Iran’s influence. Iran allegedly preferred to have pro-Iran Nakhalah in the role of secretary-general with Hindi as his deputy in order to ensure the group’s continued allegiance. PIJ denied the reports;

PIJ is a Palestinian Islamist terrorist group sponsored by Iran and Syria. Founded in 1979 as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, PIJ is the second-largest terrorist group in Gaza today (after Hamas);

Ziyad al-Nakhalah, who today lives in Lebanon, was one of the founders of the Jerusalem Brigades, the PIJ’s military-terrorist wing. In the past he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Israel because of his involvement with terrorism (and released in the Jibril Deal). He was detained again and exiled by Israel to Lebanon (where he decided to remain). He has close relations with senior Iranians, among them Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian Qods Force,. who plays a key role in transferring Iranian support to Hamas and the PIJ. Al-Nakhalah also has strong ties to the Hezbollah leadership. On January 23, 2014, the United States designed him a terrorist operative and his name was added to the American its list of terrorists (the PIJ was designated as a terrorist organization by the United States on October 8, 1997);

Involved In:
Iranian-sponsored terrorist

Date of Birth:
1953

Place of Birth:
Gaza Strip

Citizenship:
Palestinian

Arrested:
1971; 1988

Country:
Lebanon

Address:
Beirut, Lebanon

Reason for the color:
» Ziyad al-Nakhalah is the Deputy Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a group that was designated by the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on October 8, 1997;