abstract:Fathi Hamad (or Fathi Hammad) () is a political leader of Hamas. In April 2009, he was appointed the new Interior Minister in the Gaza Strip, replacing Said Seyam who was assassinated by Israel in the 2008-09 Gaza War.
Yet in November, Hamas's "Interior Minister" FathiHamad admitted to the London-based Al Hayat newspaper that the IDF's numbers were far more accurate than B'Tselem's.