Avi Dichter

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Avi Dichter, Israels Minister of Public Security, "was the domestic intelligence agency chief in 2002 when Israel bombed a Hamas military leader's house killing him, his bodyguard and 15 civilians." [1]

The BBC report,

"The Shin Beth agency, headed by Mr Dichter between 2000 and 2005, helped plan the assassination of Hamas military commander Saleh Shehada in July 2002.
Nine children were killed in the raid. A one-tonne bomb was dropped on Mr Shehada's house. The dead included his wife and his three children." [2]

He was invited to a seminar on counter terrorism as a keynote speaker by the King's College London in 2007, but cancelled due to fears of being arrested for war crimes.[3]

  1. Israeli avoids UK arrest threat,BBC News Online, 6th December 2007
  2. Israeli avoids UK arrest threat,BBC News Online, 6th December 2007
  3. Israeli avoids UK arrest threat,BBC News Online, 6th December 2007