--- title: Abdullah Galip Bergusi slug: abdullah-galip-bergusi-aeb60 url: /detay/abdullah-galip-bergusi-aeb60 type: biography language: English entity: primary: Abdullah Galip Bergusi type: biography categories: - name: General Knowledge slug: genel-kultur url: /kategori/genel-kultur - name: Engineering slug: muhendislik url: /kategori/muhendislik tags: - KassamBrigades - WestBalkans - ElectronicsEngineering - VicdanMahkumu - Kassam - Resistance - Palestine - literature - Hamas - Zionism author: Hüsnü Umut Okur created_at: 2026-06-16T18:11:10.569910+03:00 updated_at: 2026-06-16T18:11:10.569910+03:00 image: https://cdn.t3pedia.org/media/uploads/2026/04/14/0YXaOqwu6uZ6DfFpyhUAL4xYyPE1Xi5i.png --- # Abdullah Galip Bergusi > He is a Palestinian engineer and one of the former commanders of the Izzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. ## KURE Information Cards ![56586_1707858132_ljK6R.jpg](https://cdn.t3pedia.org/media/uploads/2026/04/14/ODO6M1NspN4WHSNGzLDZw7I04NLbyAIW.jpg) *Abdullah Galip Bergusi* | Field | Value | |-------|-------| | Education | Electronic Engineering (South Korea) | | Title | "El-Muhandis" (Engineer) | | Imprisonment Sentence | 67 life sentences + 5200 years | | Works | Living Martyr,Dawn of Freedom,Lost Palestine,Path of the Free,Prince of the Shadow,Engineer on the Path,Guardians of Al-Masjid al-Aqsa,Al-Maqdisi,Heart of Palestine (Jenin) | | Place of Birth | Kuwait | | Year of Birth | 1972 | ## Article Content [Abdullah Galip Bergusi](/en/detay/abdullah-galip-bergusi-af75b/llms.txt) (b. 1972, Kuwait) is a former commander of the Izzeddin al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, in the West Bank, as well as an electronic engineer and author. He is known for receiving the longest prison sentence in Israeli judicial history. ### Education Born in Kuwait to a family originally from the village of Kobar near Ramallah, he migrated with his family to Jordan after the 1990 Gulf War. He traveled to **South Korea** to pursue higher education and studied electronic engineering. The technical knowledge he acquired during his studies in South Korea, particularly regarding explosives and electronic systems, later earned him the nickname “The Engineer” (Al-Muhandis) in resistance circles. He returned to the West Bank and settled there at the end of the 1990s. ### Operational Role During the [Second Intifada](/en/detay/first-intifada-03e39/llms.txt), which began in 2000, he assumed strategic responsibilities within the Izzeddin al-Qassam Brigades. Israeli intelligence identified him as the technical planner and explosives expert behind numerous attacks including the Sbarro Restaurant bombing the Moment Café attack and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem bombing. ### Arrest and Interrogation Bergusi was arrested on **5 March 2003** in Ramallah during a raid by Israeli special forces as he was leaving a hospital. Following his arrest he underwent an intense interrogation lasting approximately **six months**. Details of his detention—including confinement in small cells without sunlight sleep deprivation and various physical and psychological interrogation methods—are documented in his own memoirs and in human rights reports. The following statement used by Israeli intelligence agencies to describe Bergusi’s threat level has entered the historical record:**:** “Even if we had to relocate Israel elsewhere we would never leave Abdullah Galip Bergusi behind; we would take him with us.”[^1] ### Trial and Conviction In 2004, at an Israeli military court under Israel’s legal system he was found responsible for attacks that resulted in the deaths of 66 people and injuries to hundreds more. He was sentenced to a total of **67 life terms** and an additional **5200 years** in prison. This sentence remains the highest ever imposed on a single individual under Israeli law. ### Prison Life and Literary Work Spending the majority of his sentence in solitary confinement Bergusi has authored numerous books with autobiographical and political themes. His literary output centers on the series [The Engineer on the Path](/en/detay/yoldaki-muhendis-kitap-372eb/llms.txt) which he intended as a guide for those who have lost their way. #### **Major Works** - *The Engineer on the Path (Mühendisü’l-Ala’t-Tarik)* - *The Prince of the Shadow (Emiruz-Zıll)* - *The Path of the Free* - *The Guardians of Al-Aqsa Mosque* ## Academic Sources and References 1. Bergusi, Abdullah Galip. Yoldaki Mühendis: Filistin Kassam Komutanının Otobiyografisi. Çeviren Hanzala el-Arabi. İstanbul: Ekin Yayınları, 2014. 2. Ekin Yayınları. "Yoldaki Mühendis; Filistin Kassam Komutanının Otobiyografisi." Accessed April 14, 2026. https://www.ekinyayinlari.com.tr/urun/yoldaki-muhendis-filistin-kassam-komutaninin-otobiyografisi-abdullah-galib-bergusi-9786055146177 3. İLHA (İlke Haber Ajansı). "Abdullah Bergusi'ye Uygulanan İşkencenin Dehşet Verici Ayrıntıları Ortaya Çıktı." Accessed April 14, 2026. https://www.ilkha.com/filistin/abdullah-bergusiye-uygulanan-iskencenin-dehset-verici-ayrintilari-ortaya-cikti-454739 ## Citations [^1]: Abdullah Galip Bergusi, Yoldaki Mühendis: Filistin Kassam Komutanının Otobiyografisi, çev. Hanzala el-Arabi (İstanbul: Ekin Yayınları, 2014), 55.