Hamzy crime clan associate allegedly abducted by four men in Sydney’s Manly
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MAY 2007: Prison officers find notes in Bassam Hamzy’s Lithgow jail cell referring to Brothers 4 Life motorcycle gang for the first time
OCTOBER 2012 – Tensions between the Bankstown and Blacktown chapters of B4L erupt with the shooting of Yehye Amood, 27, and Bassim Hijazi. Amood dies but Hijazi survives and flees to Lebanon
MARCH 9, 2013 – Bassam Hamzy’s aunt Maha Hamze is shot eight times in the legs, but survives, in a retaliatory attack by her son Ashkan Rajabi who is demanding money from the mother of another gang member.
JULY 2013 – Ashkan Rajabi and Bilal Hamze survive an assassination attempt in Wenworthville
OCTOBER 29, 2013 – Mahmoud Hamzy, Bassim Hamzy’s cousin, shot dead in Revesby Heights. Five B4L members were later charged with the murder.
NOVEMBER 3, 2013: B4L member Michael Odisho is shot but survives
NOVEMBER 4, 2013: Masood Zakaria, an Alameddine associate, survives a shooting attempt, but his 13-year-old sister is hit by buckshot.
DECEMBER 16, 2013: Joe Antoun, a stand-up man, shot dead in Strathfield
JANUARY 1, 2014: Farhad Qaumi is shot as his yacht pulls up to Rose Bay Marina in Sydney’s eastern suburbs (pictured) after the NYE fireworks.
DECEMBER 11, 2014 – Bassam Hamzy’s mother, Lola Hamzy, was shot through the door of her Auburn home.
APRIL 9, 2016: Safwan Charbaji, a relative of Alameddine’s associates, was shot dead outside an auto repair shop in Condell Park.
APRIL 29, 2016 – Wally Ahmad, a partner in the Hamzy family, shot dead in Bankstown
OCTOBER 25, 2016: Hamad Assad is executed in Georges Hall. Assad was suspected of killing Ahmad
MARCH 20, 2017 – Hell’s Angel bikie Kemel Barakat is shot dead at his home in Mortdale
MARCH 28, 2017: Emed Sleiman is shot and killed in his parking lot in Auburn. He was suspected of killing Barakat.
OCTOBER 4, 2020 – Shaylin Zreika, a member of the Alameddines, is beaten with a metal bar in a street fight in Strathfield
OCTOBER 18, 2020 – Rafat Alameddine’s former home is shot in a drive-by shooting
OCTOBER 19, 2020 – Mejid Hamzy is shot dead in Condell Park
JANUARY 30, 2021: Mustafa Naaman is shot dead in Hurstville in an alleged mistaken identity attack on Ibrahem Hamze
JANUARY 30, 2021 – Mejed Derbas is shot dead in Smithfield
FEBRUARY 15, 2021 – Bilal Hamze’s mother, Maha Hamze, is attacked again in another drive-by shooting at her home in Auburn
MARCH 12, 2021: A house linked to the Alameddine family is shot at in Guildford
JUNE 17, 2021: Bilal Hamze is shot dead outside Mr Wong’s restaurant in Sydney’s CBD
JUNE 18, 2021: Bilal Hamze was murdered in a “brutal execution-style murder” in Sydney’s CBD
AUGUST 6, 2021: Alameddine’s low-level associate Shady Kanj is shot in Chester Hill and found dead by police in Guildford
AUGUST 14, 2021 – Police foil alleged gang hit on Ibrahem Hamze when they spot a stolen Mercedes in North Sydney
OCTOBER 20, 2021: Salim and Toufik Hamze are shot dead outside their home in Guildford
NOVEMBER 10, 2021 – Drive-by shooting at the Guildford home of an Alameddine associate. No one is hurt
JANUARY 6, 2022 – Bassam Hamzy’s brother, Ghassan Amoun, is shot dead at the age of 35 in a brazen daylight execution while sitting in a BMW outside an apartment building in western Sydney.
APRIL 27, 2022: Kingpin Mahmoud ‘Brownie’ Ahmad is shot to death in Greenacre after being warned by police that he had a million dollar bounty on his head.
MAY 10, 2022 – Bikies Comanchero with ties to the Alameddine clan, Tarek Zahed and his brother Omar are gunned down in an Auburn gym
MAY 14 – Brownie Ahmad’s nephew Rami Iskander, 23, is shot dead in front of his pregnant wife and two-year-old son.
Police at the scene of the double murder of Salim and Toufik Hamze in Guildford