Channel 12 Hebrew: Hassan Salama, a prominent leader in the military wing of the Hamas movement, led the operations carried out by the movement in retaliation for the assassination of Yahya Ayyash. He was one of the planners of the attacks on Route 18 in Jerusalem, in which 45 Israelis were killed, and the 1996 attack on the Ashkelon Junction in the Trampiada area, in which an Israeli soldier was killed and 36 people were injured. He was sentenced to 46 life sentences.