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Imad Abbas (Arabic: عماد عباس‎) was a senior member of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, until his assassination by the Israeli Defense Forces on October 21, 2004, in Gaza City.

Abbas joined the ranks of Hamas in 1991, when he was seventeen years old. That year, he participated in an attack that killed two Israeli soldiers near the Karni crossing in the Gaza strip, and so joined Israel's list of wanted members of Hamas. As a fugitive, he worked with one of the leaders of the brigades, Imad Aqel, before successfully escaping to Egypt in a boat. Abbas was arrested by the Egyptian authorities but soon released, and he spent the next four years travelling in various Arab countries. In 1996, he came back in the Gaza Strip where he continued to work with other militants. At the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Abbas became the assistant of Adnan al-Ghoul, a leader of the brigades and a bombmaker.

Living in hiding and never appearing in public, Abbas was killed along with al-Ghoul on October 21, 2004, when an Israeli Apache helicopter fired missiles at the car in which they were travelling.

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