Thursday, January 15, 2009

NewsALERT: Top Hamas guy down

Said Siam [right] seen behind Mahmoud Zahar


Hamas interior minister Said Siam killed in IAF strike -Yaakov Katz

Hamas's interior minister, Said Siam [pictured abovee] was killed along with his brother and another senior Hamas man in an IAF strike on a house in the Jabaliya neighborhood in Gaza.

Siam was the Hamas political echelon's liaison with the group's military wing, and was responsible for the various security apparatuses in the Strip, including the police, and the naval force.

Salah Abu Shrakh, the head of the Hamas general security service, was also killed in the air strike.

Siam was the most senior Hamas man to be killed in almost three weeks of fighting.
[Jerusalem Post]

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