Al-Naqqash himself was involved in a 1975 terrorist attack in which three people were killed, and was pardoned after serving ten years of a life-sentence in French prison

- Arms transfer orchestrated by IRGC Qods Force commander Qasem Soleimani and Hizbullah's Chief of Staff Imad Mughniyeh
- It was done via aid convoys to Gaza
- After Israeli forces captured the Karine A arms ship, sent from Iran to Gaza, Soleimani and Mughniyeh orchestrated a weapons transfer in buses and trucks that carried food and blankets to the people of Gaza, who were said to be "starving to death." 
- Yasser Arafat would smuggle weapons into the Palestinian Authority in his car.