Raad Mahmed Raaf Karmi
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

1. Raad Mahmed Raaf Karmi, born in 1974, resident of Tulkarem, married, was a Tanzim operative.
2. The Palestinians have been reporting, for a long time that Raad Karmi is being held in prison by the Palestinian Authority (as they also told the Europeans). Again, we have a situation in which the Palestinian Authority claims to have imprisoned a terrorist who was in fact free.
3. Since the beginning of the violence in October 2000, Raad Karmi has headed a Tanzim squad responsible for many shooting attacks in the Tulkarem area, in which Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers were killed and injured.
4. In interviews and media reports, Karmi made it clear that he was determined to continue terrorist attacks against Israel and broaden them. On August 23, 2001, Karmi told CNN: "We train the teenagers to carry out terrorist attacks inside Israeli territory... We train 17 and 18 year olds to attack settlers and to kidnap soldiers inside Israel." In other interviews, he also claimed involvement in the kidnapping and murder of two Israel restaurant owners in Tulkarem.
5. Raad Karmi acts directly on the orders and supervision of Marwan Bargouti, head of the Tanzim in the West Bank.
6. According to the information in our possession, the following terrorist attacks were carried out by Karmi and his squad members, or at his direct command:
   
   

   • Numerous ongoing shooting attacks on IDF and Border Police bases in the area of Tulkarem.
   • Oct 20, 2000: participated in shooting attack on bus of Golani soldiers that mistakenly entered the city.
   • Dec 7, 2000: shooting at an Israeli vehicle near the village of Burka, seriously injuring two paratroopers - Avishai Gamzu and Yossi Cohen - and a female civilian - Rachel Moga.
   • Jan 23, 2001: the kidnapping and murder of two Tel-Aviv restaurant owners, Motti Dayan and Etgar Zaytuni, in Tulkarem.
   • May 31, 2001: Karmi participated in a shooting attack on an Israeli vehicle in Baka el-Sharkia, in which Zvi Shelef of Mevo Dotan was killed.
   • June 18, 2001: shooting attack near in Einav, in which an Israeli civilian, Dan Yehuda of Homesh, was killed and Alex Briskin was injured.
   • July 4, 2001: The murder of Eliahu Na'aman of Bnei Brak near Sueika.
   • July 30, 2001: Shooting attacks near the Israeli Arab village of Bir Saha, in which three Border Policemen were injured - one, Hani Abramov, a female officer, was severely wounded.
   • Aug 26, 2001: The murder of Dov Rosman of Netanya near the village of Zaita.
   • Sept 6, 2001: Shooting attack on an Israeli vehicle near Kibbutz Bahan, in which two off-duty IDF officers were killed.
   • Oct 5, 2001: Shooting attack in which an Israeli citizen, Hananya Ben-Avraham of Elad, was killed.
   • Oct 28, 2001: Karmi was involved in a shooting attack near Kibbutz Metzer in which an IDF officer, Yaniv Levy, was killed.
   • Oct 29, 2001: attempt to set off an explosive charge at the home of an Israeli navy officer in Raanana.
   • Nov 19, 2001: shooting attack on a taxi near the Shavei Shomron junction, in which three Israeli citizens, including the rabbi of Shavei Shomron, were injured.
   • Nov 28, 2001: attempt by two suicide bombers to infiltrate into Israeli territory, foiled by reinforced IDF forces along the Green Line near Tulkarem.
   • Dec 15, 2001: attempt by a suicide bombers to infiltrate into Israeli territory, foiled when the explosive charge he was carrying blew up by accident near Shaar Efrayim.