Palestinian Salem Thabet, a ranking official of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigade group, is Hizbullah's man in Gaza. He commands the "Mughniyeh Squads," named after the party's commander killed by a car bomb in Damascus last February. Thabet told Asharq al-Awsat daily he named his group after Mughniyeh "because he was a leader of Fatah's squad 17 and had worked with the (late) President Yasser Arafat" when the latter was commanding the mainstream guerilla faction and the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon before the 1982 Israeli invasion...(Naharnet).
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