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Thursday, January 15, 2009
NewsALERT: Top Hamas guy down
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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