Said Seyam (1957 – January 15, 2009 ) (Arabic: سعيد صيام, first name also spelled Saeed and Sayed and last name also spelled Siam) was the Interior Minister of the Palestinian government of March 2006. He joined Hamas, and became one of its top commanders. During the Gaza War, Seyam was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Jabalia.
Said Seyam was born in 1959 in the al-Shati Refugee Camp near Gaza City. His parents had fled there during the 1948 Ar...
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Said Seyam (1957 – January 15, 2009 ) (Arabic: سعيد صيام, first name also spelled Saeed and Sayed and last name also spelled Siam) was the Interior Minister of the Palestinian government of March 2006. He joined Hamas, and became one of its top commanders. During the Gaza War, Seyam was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Jabalia.
Said Seyam was born in 1959 in the al-Shati Refugee Camp near Gaza City. His parents had fled there during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War from their village home of al-Jura, near Ashkelon. Following his secondary education in Gaza City, he gained a diploma in sciences and maths, followed by a bachelor's degree in Islamic education from the Al-Quds Open University. He had six children: two boys and four girls.
It is unknown when Seyam joined Hamas, but he was one of the early members. Seyam held a job as a teacher at various United Nations-run schools until 2003. He was arrested four times during the First Intifada from 1987 to 1991. In 1992, he was expelled from...
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