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<a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=499517" target="_blank"><strong>Maan News Agency | June 28, 2012</strong></a></p>
<p>BETHLEHEM (Ma&#8217;an) &#8212; The funeral of a Hamas member assassinated in Syria will be held in Jordan, Hamas officials said Thursday.</p>
<p>Kamal Ghanaja, known as Nizar Abu Mujahed, was killed in his Damascus home on Wednesday. Ghanaja&#8217;s family are heading to Jordan to attend his funeral, which will not be held in Syria because of the unrest, Hamas sources in Syria told Ma&#8217;an.</p>
<p>The Supreme Council of the Syrian Revolution said in a statement that Ghanaja&#8217;s body was found in his home in Damascus&#8217; Al-Yarmouk refugee camp with clear signs of torture, including cigarette burns. Ghanaja&#8217;s belongings &#8212; including his laptop, weapons and money &#8212; were not stolen, the council said. </p>
<p>The Beirut-based satellite channel Al-Mayadeen reported that Hamas was waiting for a forensic report before responding to the assassination. </p>
<p>In a statement in Gaza, Hamas did not immediately accuse Israel of involvement in Ghanaja&#8217;s death, saying only that it had launched an investigation &#8220;to identify the party behind the deplorable crime&#8221;.</p>
<p>A Hamas source in Gaza said &#8220;there were marks of torture&#8221; on Ghanaja&#8217;s body. Hamas did not disclose his role in the movement but said he &#8220;spent his life working for the sake of God&#8221; within its ranks. One Hamas source described Ghanaja as a mid-level military official.</p>
<p>Several websites affiliated to the opposition to President Bashar Assad blamed the Syrian regime for Ghanaja&#8217;s killing and said Assad&#8217;s forces murdered the Hamas leader as a message to the movement not to reject its long-time ally.</p>
<p>Hamas&#8217; politburo moved to Damascus in 1999 after it was expelled from Jordan, but many of the party&#8217;s top officials quietly quit the Syrian capital amid the 16-month bloody revolt against Assad. In February, Hamas leaders publicly denounced Assad and declared their support for Syrian rebels.</p>
<p>Asked about reports of Ghanaja&#8217;s death, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israeli Army Radio: &#8220;He was not really personally familiar (to me). According to all the background published, he was no saint and I don&#8217;t want to add anything or comment about this incident.&#8221;</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s Mossad intelligence service is widely believed to have been behind the assassination in Dubai in 2010 of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a top Hamas commander. Israel, sticking to a policy of &#8220;ambiguity&#8221; on Mossad operations, refused to confirm or deny its agents killed him.</p>
<p>Reuters contributed to this report.</p>
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