Terror organization: Hamas (Lebanon).

Status: Responsible for recruitment in the Construction Department.

Role: Construction Department

The construction department oversees developing covert terror capabilities for Hamas, to perpetrate terror against a range of targets in various countries.

The main idea was to set up a Palestinian military force in Lebanon secretly, without the knowledge of the Lebanese authorities or Hezbollah, by recruiting residents of based on Palestinian refugee camps.

Majed Khader, current head of the Construction Department, thought up the plan several years ago with the help of additional operatives, and under the direction of Hamas’s leadership.
The Department’s activity includes procurement and independent production of weapons, including rockets and recruitment and training of combatants. Courses are provided on covert collection, combat in built-up Ares, shooting and more.

The department’s chain of command is mostly located in Lebanon and globally is managed from there.
The department is headed by Majed Khader and Mohamed Saleem. They are responsible for all the department’s activity worldwide, and its HQ and professional sections are under their command. Khader came up with the covert plan to mount terror attacks from Lebanon and Syria. Saleem, his deputy, also serves as the head of the Production Section, which deals with production of rockets and attack drones, and provides technical assistance to the department.

Location: Lebanon.