 In September 2001 the PFLP reached a decision to assassinate the Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi purportedly in retaliation for the targeted killing of the PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa by Israel in August 2001.As a result, the PFLP began gathering detailed intelligence information on Ze'evi's whereabouts and schedule, and found out that he had a permanent room in the Hyatt hotel in Jerusalem, located on the border between the neighborhoods of French Hill and Mount Scopus.The assassin squad members booked a room at the hotel by telephone and provided a fake ID.