Who is Mohammed Deif, the Hamas commander behind the attack on Israel?

The whereabouts of Deif are unknown, though he is most likely in Gaza in the maze of tunnels under the enclave

Rockets being fired toward Israel from the Gaza Strip last Saturday. Saturday's assault was the worst breach in Israeli defences since the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict. Photo: AP/Fatima Shbair

Israel has called last week's devastating attack by Hamas its 9/11 moment. The secretive mastermind behind the assault, Palestinian militant Mohammed Deif, calls it Al Aqsa Flood.

The phrase Israel's most wanted man used in an audio tape broadcast as Hamas fired thousands of rockets out of the Gaza strip on Saturday signalled the attack was payback for Israeli raids at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque.