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It is true that Muhammad al -Dhaif The commander -in -chief of the Martyr Izz Al -Qassam brigades devoted most of his life to the resistance and the fighting of the Israeli occupation to his martyrdom, but the sporting side was present to him, in particular Youth stage.
Abu Ubaidah, media spokesperson for the AL -Qassam brigades – last Thursday – announced the martyrdom of the guest and a number of military leaders in Hamas during the war of annihilation on the Gaza Strip.
During an interview with Al -jazeera Net, Ghadeer Siam, the guest’s wife, revealed sporting aspects of her husband’s life, confirming that Mohamed was a football fan he preferred to the rest of the others Games, as a player and disciple.
“Mohamed was a good player and wanted to follow the football games, especially the World Cup,” she added.
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In the teams he encouraged, the wife revealed the name of an Arab team and another international, noting that “the guest was a fan of Al -ahly in Egypt, while overall was a fan of the Barcelona team “.
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For its part, a source from the Khan Yunis Services Club revealed that the guest had joined his youth in the club located near his house, which coincided with the team’s golden period at the local level.
He added to Al -jazeera Net that the guest began playing football at the start of popular squares and with mosque teams at Khan Yunis, before joining the services of Khan Yunis.
The sporting source said that the guest was fluent in a defender and was distinguished by force and gravity, but his career was not written to be completed due to the start of the first intifada in 1987, it is -Who when he was 22 years old.
He continued: sports activity has stopped in the sector after the outbreak is launched, with the exception of some of the popular square and mosques championships, and at the start of this period, the guest worked as coach For the Bin Bilal Rabah team of Mosque in Khan Yunis, which was formed of cubs and young people.
While the uprising continues, the guest – his real name, Mohamed Diab Ibrahim al -Masry – was invaded in a resistance to work and disappeared from sight, to devote his whole life after that to the resistance while the ‘Army of the Occupation arrested him.
The guest spent 16 months in prison, then left for the West Bank with a number of Qassam leaders in the Palestinian sector besieged.
He stayed at the bank for a while and supervised the creation of a branch of the AL -Qassam brigades there, and he became a battalions commander after the martyrdom of Commander IDAL in 1993.
According to the same spokesperson, the guest was not the only one in his family to have trends and mathematical interests.
He explained that Medhat (son of the brother of the guest) was a member of the board of directors of Khan Yunis Services Club, and he also held several other positions in the club, including the sports supervisor and the director of the ball.
And his uncle had preceded the martyrdom path, because he was killed at the start of the war of extermination after having targeted by Israeli war aircraft of the place where he was found in Khan Yunis, south of the band .
Marwan Issa is one of the basketball stars in Gaza
He was not the only guest among the senior military leaders in Hamas who had a sporting activity during the youth period, because his assistant, Marwan Issa, was a basketball player of the AL -Bureij services team.
Issa led the team to reach many local titles at the Gaza Strip, before the arrival of the Palestinian authority in the 1990s.
An official of the al -Bureij Services Club – for Al -jazeera Net – said that Issa was a follower at Triple Grenade and a special playmaker, then he resumed the team for a short period before returning play again.
The martyr Raed Thabet (commander of the workforce in the brigades of Al-Qassam) was also a player in the ranks of the Nuseirat team in the 90s of the last century.