On 5 February 2011, Al-Saedni, then also known as Sheikh 'Ahed Ahmad 'Abd Al-Karim Al-Sa'idani, was the leader of a Gazan jihadist group calling itself
Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, and posted a
fatwa stating that
Jews and
Christians may be targeted in lethal attacks such as those of
9/11 because they are "aggressive combatants" and "fundamentally not innocent". The fatwa also stated that it is not permissible to refrain from such attacks for fear of hurting
Muslims, "because this would mean stopping the jihad". Al-Saedni tried to unite all the different groups of
Salafi jihadists in Gaza but was killed in an Israeli airstrike two months later. ==Death==