Posted on 01/15/2009 9:25:35 AM PST by mojito
Hamas's interior minister, Said Siam, was killed along with his brother Iad and another senior Hamas man in an IAF strike on a house in the Jabaliya neighborhood in Gaza City, Israeli defense officials told The Jerusalem Post.
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.
Siam was considered a radical and was in contact with Hamas's political leadership in Damascus.
Salah Abu Shrakh, the head of the Hamas general security service, was also killed in the air strike.
Palestinian medical officials confirmed the house was attacked, but there was no word from Hamas on Siam's fate.
Siam was the most senior Hamas man to be killed in almost three weeks of fighting.
Two weeks ago, the IAF dropped a one-ton bomb on the home of one of the group's top five leaders, Sheikh Nizar Rayyan, killing him and a reported 18 others.
Rayyan was both the director and the financier of the 2004 terror attack at the Ashdod port, which killed 10 Israelis, and in October 2001 he sent his son to perpetrate a suicide attack in the Gush Katif settlement Elei Sinai, where two Israelis were killed.
Rayyan also reportedly replaced Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as the organization's top clerical authority after Yassin's assassination in 2004.
Another one bites the dust.
He shoots... SCORE!!!!
Good work, IDF.
Good news!
They must have just returned from the U.N. compound!
Buh-bye SS. Enjoy your 72 raisins.
Uh... buh bye...
Killing these guys seems like trying to kill the weeds in your lawn, no matter how many times you kill the same weed, it will be there in a week anyways.
How many Hamas members are seniors of Siam? ALL of them have to go. ...before the inevitable ceasefire.
May 72 pigs greet him in HELL!
I love the smell of muzzie pink mist in the morning. It smells like victory.
Die hard baby..... hell awaits you
“Siam was considered a radical...”
amazing
seriously is there such a thing as a moderate Hamas leader?
Someone who hasn’t sent a son or daughter or someone elses’ son or daughter to die as a suicide bomber... yet?
Should they come for your guns I suggest you surrender them. Ammo first of course! ;)
Congrats to the Israeli’s. Keep it up.
The Interior Minister was firing mortars from his house?
Locked and loaded my friend, and the business end will come first.
yep, part of the same terrorism machine.
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