(Ha'aretz) Jack Khoury - Khaled Mohammed Mahamra and Mohammed Ahmad Mahamra from the West Bank town of Yatta, who perpetrated the shooting attack in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, were not Hamas members but were influenced by its ideology, according to relatives of the two. Khaled studied law at Mutah University in Jordan, while Mohammed worked in construction in the Beersheba area. One of the members of the extended Mahamra family is Khaled Mahamra, a Hamas member who was released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal and re-arrested after the kidnap of the three Jewish youths in 2014. Another relative is Taleb Mahamra, who was a commander in the Iz al-Din al-Qassam Brigade of Hamas and is serving seven life sentences.
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