The cousin of slain underworld figures who police fear is the next target in Sydney's family blood feud has been charged along with six other men in an alleged kidnapping and stabbing in western Sydney.
Ibrahem Hamze, 27, is also charged with shooting with intent to murder and soliciting a murder following the attack outside a Prospect gym in November 2021.
He is the cousin of jailed Brothers 4 Life gangster Bassam Hamzy and has seen at least five family members executed in what NSW Raptor Squad police believe is part of an ongoing war between the Hamze and Alameddine families.
Hamze arrived under police escort back in NSW after being extradited from the Gold Coast by detectives who have repeatedly warned him his life is in danger.
The war between the two Middle Eastern Australian families was reignited in earnest in October 2020, when Ibrahem's cousin Mejid Hamzy was gunned at Condell Park.
Just weeks ago, Ibrahem's cousin Ghassan Amoun was shot dead in a brazen lunchtime execution after he was ambushed on leaving the Lady Laser salon in South Wentworthville just days after being released from prison.
Ibrahem Hamze has been charged along with Haissam Hamzy, 27, and Tareek Hamzy, 24, and four others for allegedly detaining and stabbing a man in Sydney's west last year.
Ibrahem also faces charges of large commercial drug supply, and directing the activities of a criminal group.
Ibrahem Hamze (above in pale grey hoodie) has faced court charged with solicit murder. shooting with intent to murder and with the alleged kidnap of a man last September
Ibrahem Hamze (above) is escorted by NSW Police Raptor Squad at Bankstown Airport in Sydney after his extradition from Queensland to face charges of kinapping and soliciting murder
Hamze, 27, was arrested and charged by police who have warned him that he risks being the next target in the ongoing Sydney underworld blood feud between two families
Haissem and Tareek, who were arrested at Condell Park after police raids, are also related to Mejid Hamzy and the other slain family members.
Bilal El-Chamy, 21, and Ahmad El-Chamy, 27 were arrested at Thirlmere in relation to the incident at Merrylands last year.
A 24-year-old man walking in Merrylands last September was allegedly assailed by five men who forced him into a white Toyota van parked nearby.
Police say the man was driven to a vacant unit in Auburn and held captive for several hours, before he was found in Birrong with a stab wound to his shoulder and taken to Liverpool Hospital.
Hamze has seen at least five relatives gunned down in brazen executions (above, cousin Ghassan Amoun is buried after being shot dead in January) in violent underworld blood feud with the Alameddine family
Ibrahem Hamze is charged over the alleged kidnapping (above) in Merrylands last September of a 24-year-old man later found with stab wounds to his shoulder
Hamze is also charged with soliciting murder in relations to the shooting at the World Gym at Prospect last November when shots were fired from a car and a man, 33, was wounded
Two men arrested following the incident have been refused bail to appear before Fairfield Local Court on February 17.
Following further investigations, police charged Ibrahem Hamze, Haissem Hamzy, Tareek Hamzy, Bilal El-Chamy and Ahmad El-Chamy and who were all due to face Parramatta Bail Court on Wednesday.
Ibrahem Hamze's other charges stem from a shooting outside the World Gym at Prospect in western Sydney on November 29 last year.
Ibrahem Hamze (above in white mask) has been warned by police he is at risk and is considered the 'last man standing' after the series of brazen daylight executions of his family
CCTV of the alleged kidnapping (above) and stabbing of the 24-year-old man in Merrylands was released by police who have just charged seven men including Ibrahem Hamze
Ghassan Amoun (above left, blue jacket), whose older brother is jailed Brothers 4 Life gangster Bassam Hamzy (above, right) was ambushed and shot outside the lady Laser salon in January, four days after his release from prison
As with the alleged Merrylands kidnap, police released CCTV of the incident which shows four men walking to the gym's entrance on Rowood Road around 11.35am when a volley of shots were fired at them.
Police escort Ibrahem Hamze to a vehicle to transport him to Parramatta court where he would face a magistrate formally charged over two incidents in Sydney last year
The bullets struck the gym's exterior and a staircase and entered a daycare centre next door, narrowly missing the children and staff inside.
The cameras also captured speeding from the scene a dark-coloured Mazda, which was later found burnt out 5km away in Blacktown.
One 33-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to his leg, although the other three men were uninjured.
Bilal Hamze is laid to rest at Rookwood after he was gunned down execution style in Sydney's CBD in June last year, just nine months after his cousin
