Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, (February 14, 1961 January 19, 2010) occurred on January 19, 2010 in a hotel room in Dubai. A co-founder of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the paramilitary wing of the Islamist Palestinian militant group Hamas, al-Mabhouh was wanted by Israel for the kidnapping and murder of two Israeli soldiers in 1989, which is cited as a possible motive for the assassination.