Shuli Har Melech, husband of MK Limor Son Har Melech (Otzma Yehudit), was identified as one of the Jewish victims of the Silwad terror cell, The Zioneer reports.
The Zioneer Intelligence Desk reports that Shuli Har Melech, husband of MK Limor Son Har Melech (Otzma Yehudit), has been identified as one of the Jewish victims of the Silwad terror cell. The identification, which provides a perpetrator group for a previously known killing, comes hours after the IDF eliminated senior Hamas operative Farah Hamed in a Gaza City strike on Wednesday evening.
On Wednesday September 9, The Zioneer reported that the IDF killed Farah Hamed, a senior Hamas military wing commander and a member of the Al-Qassam Military Council, in a targeted airstrike in western Gaza City. Initial Palestinian reports confirmed his death, and by Wednesday evening, Hamas officially confirmed the elimination. The Zioneer's subsequent coverage established that Hamed had been convicted for the 2002 murder of Shuli Har Melech—the same victim now identified—and that he was released in the 2011 Shalit prisoner exchange. The thread shows a rapid evolution: from an unverified strike report to multiple corroborating sources, including Hamas's own confirmation and Israeli media identifying the victim as MK Son Har Melech's husband.
MK Son Har Melech has previously addressed her husband's death in the context of security policy. As The Zioneer reported on August 11, she criticized the IDF's resource allocation, noting that forces were being used for agricultural plowing near the Allon axis—where her husband was killed—rather than for offensive counter-terror operations. The elimination of Hamed, a convicted terrorist who continued orchestrating attacks from Gaza after his release, adds a security dimension to the ongoing debate.
The identification of Shuli Har Melech as a victim of the Silwad cell, while confirmed, still lacks an official government or IDF statement explicitly linking the cell to the murder. The exact timeline of the identification and whether it resolves all questions about the perpetrators remain open.
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