Hamas ‘founding father’ responsible for alliance with Iran dies weeks after ‘accidental’ self-inflicted gunshot wound.
David Rosenberg
David Rosenberg
A senior member of the Hamas terrorist organization has died, a Hamas spokesman said Tuesday, three weeks after he suffered what the terror organization claimed was an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head.
On January 9th, Fawzy Barhoum, spokesman for the Gaza-based Islamist terror group, said that Imad al-Alami, one of the movement’s most senior officials, was critically wounded when his personal firearm accidentally discharged.
Al-Alami, 61, was “inspecting his personal weapon in his home and is in critical condition,” Barhoum said at the time.
The Hamas leader was rushed to a Gaza City hospital.
The Hamas leader was rushed to a Gaza City hospital.
On Tuesday, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem reported that Al-Alami had succumbed to his wounds, dying in Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital.
Outlawed by the US in 2003 for his position in Hamas, al-Alami was considered one of the Gaza terror group’s most important assets, due to his extensive ties with the Iranian government – a major sponsor of Hamas – and his personal relationship with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, himself a client of the Tehran regime.
In recent years, al-Alami operated out of Turkey, where he received medical treatment.
In recent years, al-Alami operated out of Turkey, where he received medical treatment.
A founding father of the Hamas terror group, al-Alami returned to the Gaza Strip in 2012, where he previously served as deputy chief of Hamas’ Political Bureau, and once chaired its “Intifada Committee”.