Ihab al-Ghussein
Ihab al-Ghussein (May 12, 1979 – July 7, 2024) was a Palestinian politician from Hamas. He served as the de facto spokesman for the Interior Ministry of the Palestinian Authority in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. From 2012 to 2020, he was the director of the Communications Ministry in Gaza, and in 2020 he became Deputy Minister of Labor. He helped merge Hamas’s Executive Force into Palestinian security services and ordered the release of 150 prisoners from Fatah and other groups. During the 2008-2009 Gaza War, he said those killed were Gazans at work, not activists launching rockets. He was killed by an Israeli airstrike on July 7, 2024, when a strike hit the Holy Family Catholic School in Gaza City; Hamas said his wife and daughter were killed in an earlier strike. He was 45, studied at the Islamic University of Gaza, and was Palestinian and a member of Hamas.
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