The leader of Iran hosted the leader of the Islamic Jihad

On Tuesday, February 18, in Tehran, a meeting of the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khameni and the Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization Ziyada An-Nakhala reports, Iranian agency reports.

Earlier, as a rule, Khamenei accepted at the same time Ziyada al-Nahal and the head of the Politburo Hamas Ismail Haniyu. But in July last year, Haniya was liquidated in Tehran.

Ziyad al-hut. Brief biography

Born in 1953 in Khan Junis, in the south of the Gaza sector. The teenager was detained several times by Israeli military and special services for extremist actions. In 1971, he was sentenced to life imprisonment as an action movie of the “Arab Front of Liberation”, involved in the terrorist attacks. He was released on May 21, 1985 as part of the so -called “Djibille deal” (the exchange of three Israeli soldiers for 1150 prisoners).

After the release from prison, he returned to the Gaza sector, where in 1987 he joined the Islamist terrorist organization “Islamic Jihad”, created with the support of the Egyptian “Muslim brothers”. According to the personal assignment of the first Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad, Fathi Kapka (liquidated in October 1995 in Malta) Ziyad al-Nahal formed the military wing of this organization, which received the name of the Al-Kuds brigade. He participated in the first intifada as the commander of the Brigades. He was arrested in April 1988, in August of the same year sent to Lebanon.

In 1995, An-Nakhala became deputy secretary of the Islamic Jihad.

Ziyad al-Hahala is one of the particularly dangerous terrorists looking for the US authorities. For the information that will lead to his capture, the American authorities are ready to pay $ 5 million. An-nahal accounts in the United States are frozen.

Ziyad An-Nakhala became general secretary of the Islamic Jihad on September 28, 2018. He replaced the seriously ill Ramadan Shalah in this post (in Eid, they claim that Shalah was poisoned by Israeli special services, which led to a series of strokes and death at the age of 62).