One of the last members still standing in one of Sydney's most notorious gangs has been arrested after being repeatedly warned by police his life was in danger.
Ibrahem Hamze, 29, was arrested by Queensland Police officers on the Gold Coast on Monday afternoon in relation to an ongoing investigation into the warring Hamzy and Alameddine clans in Sydney's southwest.
Ibrahem Hamze has a minor criminal history but is understood to be a target based on close family links to the Hamzy network.
Ibrahem Hamze, 29, (pictured) has been arrested on Queensland's Gold Coast
He was approached several times by detectives earlier this month who warned the 29-year-old he could be the next victim following a string of brutal shootings.
A NSW Police spokesperson said in a statement: 'For operational reasons, there is no information available at this time'.
Police believe he almost lost his life last January when a would-be killer mistakenly shot the wrong person - a man who looked and drove a car similar to Hamze.
Just a few months later, two gunman clad in balaclavas drove a stolen Mercedes to a North Sydney street close to where Hamze was living in August.
Suspicious police officers inadvertently saved the young man's life when they intercepted the pair after recognising the vehicle as stolen.
Ibrahem Hamze hugs a mourner at a burial service for his brother Bilal, gunned down outside Kid Kyoto restaurant, which was closely monitored by NSW Police in June 2021
Ghassan Amoun (centre) was gunned down in broad daylight earlier this month less than a year after police told him he was a marked man (Ibrahem Hamze is pictured second from right)
Samuel John Rokomaqisa, 31, has been charged over that incident.
Detective Superintendent Grant Taylor said the cousin of Brothers for Life leader Bassam Hamzy should 'thank his lucky stars he's alive'.
Hamze's arrest comes just weeks after his cousin, Ghassan Amoun, was gunned down outside Laser Lady beauty parlour in Sydney's South Wentworthville.
He was shot dead with two bullets pumped into his head in broad daylight as he got into a late model luxury BMW around lunchtime on January 6.
Police and paramedic pulled him from the vehicle but he died at the scene which was later swarmed by detectives looking for clues.
Staff who were working at a massage parlour next door when the shooting occurred were 'traumatised', the owner said.
Authorities are still hunting for the cold blooded killers who gunned down Amoun, who is underworld kingpin Bassam Hamzy's brother.
On January 10, just five days after the shooting, Ghassan Amoun was put to rest on top of the body of his older brother Mejid Hamze who was farewelled just 15 months earlier
Amoun, who is the younger brother of Brothers for Life founder Bassam Hamzy, was getting into his luxury BMW when he was shot twice in the head in Sydney's western suburbs
Amoun, 35, is the latest in a growing list of Hamzy family members to be slain amid an underworld war with the Alameddine crime network.
On January 10, just five days after the shooting, he was put to rest on top of the body of his older brother Mejid Hamze who was farewelled just 15 months earlier.
Emotions ran high at Rookwood Cemetery as Amoun's body was carried in a green coffin to a freshly dug gravesite at Rookwood Cemetery, accompanied by two hundred mourners, mostly males.
Pictured is jailed Brothers for Life gang founder Bassam Hamzy who is believed to be calling the shots from Goulburn Prison after being sentenced for murder
In the Muslim section of the cemetery his body was buried around half way between the graves of relatives allegedly executed in the same gangland war which is believed to be responsible for Amoun's death.
They are the graves of Salim Hamze, the so-called 'baby-faced gangster' gunned down with his innocent father Toufik just four months ago and that of Bassam Hamzy's cousin Bilal Hamze, executed in July last year.
Toufik's body was, as per the 64-year-old's wishes, sent back to Lebanon for burial.
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