Said Siam, the interior minister from Hamas who killed the Israeli army on Thursday, was one of the instigators of the action with that in June 2007, the Palestinian Islamist movement took control of Gaza and the supporters of the ousted President Mahmud Abbas.

Siam created the Executive Force of Hamas, then turned on police after the movement’s takeover of the Gaza Strip.

It was also a member of the radical wing of the Islamist movement and had been accused by the Fatah movement of moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, of having carried out a fierce repression against his supporters after taking control of Gaza.

In March 2006 he was appointed Minister of Internal Palestinian unity government, then, Hamas and Fatah reunite.

He was a member of the Hamas political office and was elected MP in his constituency in Gaza, where he enjoyed great popularity.

Born in the refugee camp CHATTI in Gaza in 1959, this father of six children in politics only really came rather late, after a long career as a professor, who left in 2003.

However, for many years was very active in the political field and was arrested four times during the first intifada (1987-1993).

Like Mahmoud Zahar, was expelled by Israel in 1992 to southern Lebanon.

Upon his return to Gaza, was arrested by Palestinian security services.

Ex man near the head Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas who was killed in a targeted Israeli attack in 2004, Said Siam worked closely with the current leader of the Islamist movement’s political bureau, Khaled Mechaal, who lives in exile in Damascus.

Siam Mechaal accompanied to Moscow in March 2006, the first visit by Palestinian Islamists to a large western capital after having won the legislative February this year in the Gaza Strip.

On January 1, 2009, another top leader of Hamas, Nizar Rayan, died in another Israeli air strike in Jabaliya (northern Gaza), which also claimed the lives of his four wives and ten of his 12 children .