Israel claims Hamas security chief dead in attack

[David]

AP


JERUSALEM – Israeli security officials say the army has killed the Hamas interior minister, who oversaw thousands of security agents in the Gaza Strip.

Officials from the military and Shin Bet security agency say Said Siam was killed while hiding in his brother's home in Gaza City. Siam is considered to be among Hamas' top five leaders in Gaza.

The Israeli officials said forces attacked the house after receiving information he was inside. Israeli intelligence believes he is dead.

Palestinian medical officials confirmed the house was attacked, but there was no word from Hamas on his fate.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity pending a formal announcement by the military.

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Hamas said to have killed informant


Palestine Press reports that Hamas immediately found someone to blame for Israel's successful killing of Hamas leader Said Siam and executed him on the spot.

According to the report, Siam drove to his house and kept the engine running while he ran inside. That was when the IAF got him.

Hamas claims that they extracted a confession from the informant, said to be an insider, and then shot him immediately.

The PalArab self-death count therefore goes up...

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Terror funeral in Gaza draws "tens of thousands"



Ma'an reports on the funeral of Hamas "interior minister" Said Siam:

Tens of thousands of Palestinians, many of them Hamas supporters, attended a mass funeral procession in Gaza on Friday for de facto Interior Minister Said Siyam, who was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday.

If Gaza is as ravaged as the news reports and "human rights" activists want us to believe, and if Gazans all believe that Israel is targeting civilians; if Israel's goal (as that moderate Mahmoud Abbas has said) is to "eliminate the Palestinian people from Gaza".... then why would so many people put their lives in their own hands and gather in such a large crowd, with the knowledge that surely Israel will drop megaton bombs on them? Imagine how many of these people could have been killed by a single bomb of the type that killed their hero (crater pictured on left).

Could it be that they really know that Israel is more moral than they are, and are willing to bet their own lives on it?

(By the way, his Ma'an obituary includes the fact that Siam used to get his paycheck from the UN:

Siyam worked as a math and science teacher at local United Nations-run schools. He joined Hamas in the 1980s, one of its earliest members. Siyam quickly assumed leadership of the local teacher's union.

(Meaning that he was a UNRWA teacher and a terrorist simultaneously.)
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