Career
A protégé of Yahya Ayyash, Sharif was responsible for the First and second Jerusalem bus 18 massacres, and the Ashkelon bus station bombing. Sharif gained a Bachelor in electronic engineering at the First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Quds University. Sharif died in a car explosion near a garage in Ramallah on March 29, 1998.
Many Palestinians believe that he was a victim to internal struggles between Palestinian militias.
But Hamas said that the Preventive Security Force by its commander Jibril Rajoub killed Sharif after they arrested him.