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Two top Hamas officials killed in Israeli attack Gaza City, 15 Jan. (AKI) - Palestinian and Israeli sources say two senior Hamas leaders, among them the group's Interior Minister Said Siam, were killed during an Israeli targeted assassination on Thursday. Hamas' head of general security service Salah Abu Sharah was also killed in the airstrike, as well as the head of its military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, Mahmoud Watfah. Six other Palestinians were also killed during the airstrike and 20 people were injured. Siam was killed while hiding at his brother's home in Gaza City. Siam's brother and his son were also killed in the airstrike. "The blood of Said Siam will be a curse on the Zionist entity," said Hamas official Mohammed Nazzal quoted by Arab TV network Al-Jazeera. Siam and Shrakh are the most senior Hamas men to be killed in the Israeli offensive against Gaza. Siam is said to be the number three leader of Hamas in Gaza after Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud Zahar. Palestinian medical officials say the death toll in Gaza has risen to nearly 1,100 while 5,027 have been injured since the offensive began on 27 December. Thirteen Israelis have been killed. Ten of them soldiers and three civilians have died from Palestinian militants' rockets launched from Gaza. "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -- George Washington [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
