The gunmen who killed Hamas military leader Mazen Faqha Friday night had broken into his parking garage, lying in wait for hours, before executing the murder that has so far left no trace but the dead body, a Palestinian daily reports on Sunday.
According to a report in Palestinian daily Al-Quds, Faqha, a former prisoner in Israel who oversaw Hamas’s efforts to drive terror attacks in the West Bank, drove home around 6:00 p.m., with his wife and daughter in the car. The two family members exited the car at the front door, and the Hamas leader went to park the car alone.
He was killed almost immediately after the electric garage door closed behind his vehicle.
The gunmen used weapons equipped with silencers, and shot him four times, the report says.
An hour and a half passed before Faqha’s corpse was found by one of the residents of his apartment tower, the report says. Hamas security forces quickly arrived to the scene of the murder and checked security the security cameras, according to the report, but so far have not been able to identify the killers.
The report adds that one of the building doors, which is usually kept locked, was found open the night of the killing.
— Dov Lieber
Mazen Faqha, upon his release after the Shalit deal in 2011. (Screen capture Twitter)
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