(Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center) On Nov. 14, 2011, in response to rocket fire from Gaza, the Israeli Air Force attacked a Hamas police post in Gaza City, killing Muhammed Zaher al-Kilani, a police coast guardsman. The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military-terrorist wing, issued an official statement on the death of al-Kilani, who was one of their operatives. Many members of Hamas' police coast guard units also belong to the al-Qassam Brigades and have military-terrorist duties which bear no relation to naval policing functions. One of the greatest failures of the Goldstone Report was that it disregarded the double identities of the Hamas police, claiming that the police and other internal security forces were civilian in nature. However, reliable intelligence information proved that a large number of Hamas policemen also concurrently served in its military-terrorist wing.
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