Mohammed al-Zawari

Mohamed Zouari (; January 196715 December 2016) was a Tunisian aerospace engineer working for the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing. He was assassinated in his hometown of Sfax on 15 December 2016 when he was shot dead in a drive-by shooting that has been widely attributed to the Mossad.

Biography Mohamed Mahmoud Zouari was born in January 1967 in to a conservative Muslim family in Sfax, Tunisia. He was one of the followers of the Islamic political party Ennahdha. He left Tunisia in 1991 to Syria to escape the wave of political repression by the Zine El Abidine Ben Ali regime. Zouari returned to Tunisia after the Tunisian Revolution of 2010-11.

Assassination

On 15 December 2016, after getting in his car and just about to drive away, a truck drove up and blocked the way. Two shooters opened fire with silenced firearms, firing about twenty shots. Zouari was mortally wounded, as three bullet hits to the chest turned out to be fatal. It also accused Israel of being behind the assassination and promised to avenge Zouari.

Asked about the assassination, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said that Israel would continue to defend its interests.