✸The Ammar Hammoud martyrdom operation

On 30 December 1999 the mujahid Ammar Hammoud blew up his car at an Israeli convoy in Qlaiaa; the last martyrdom operation before the liberation. According to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on the following Quds Day: Ammar Hussein Hammoud, brother of the martyr Mohammed Hammoud, who had been martyred more than a year earlier and whose body was still held, and son of the father who visited Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah after Beit Yahoun to offer his five sons; he detonated 250 kilograms of explosives at a convoy of four vehicles in an area Israel considered "safe" near the border, destroying a truck with everyone in it and killing seven. It was dedicated to Fathi Shaqaqi, Yahya Ayyash and the people of the strip.