Senior Hamas leader killed -Yaakov Katz
Sheikh Nizar Rayyan [pictured above, blue robe, center], 52, a senior Hamas leader and cleric, was killed along with several others when an IAF aircraft dropped a bomb on the eight-story Jabalya apartment building he lived in.
He was considered one of the most fanatical Hamas commanders. He was both the director and the financier of the 2004 terrorist attack at Ashdod's port which killed ten Israelis. In 2001, he sent his son to perpetrate a suicide attack in Gush Katif, in which two young Israelis were killed.
Rayyan had replaced Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as the organization's top clerical authority after Yassin's assassination in 2004. Rayyan was the fourth senior terror figure to be killed in air strikes Thursday.
[Jerusalem Post]
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