Hisham Al-Saedni

Hisham Al Saedni , also known by the nom de guerre Abu Walid al-Maqdisi, was a Palestinian military activist and a Muslim leader and founding member of the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem in the Gaza Strip and he was also leader of al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad, a branch of al-Qaeda in Gaza. in Cairo, and according to other sources in Bureij in Gaza Strip and his family moved to Egypt when he was two years old. He lived in Egypt and Jordan. He fought for Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Al-Saedni tried to unite all the different groups of Salafi jihadists in Gaza but was killed in an Israeli airstrike two months later.

Death Hisham Al-Saedni was killed on 13 October 2012 by an Israeli Air Force strike together with Ashraf Al-Sabah who was also a Salafist. Israel said it was responding to an earlier rocket attack on southern Israel.