He is the head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement, which is the militant Palestinian group that bitterly opposes the Palestinian-Israeli peace accords.
In a simple ceremony, custody of l Hill's ashes was formally transferred to Frederick Lee, chairman of the general executive board of the Industrial Workers of the World, which is the militant workers' organization Hill belonged to.
The recent violence was initially thought to have been triggered by a turf war between the long-established National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the newly-formed Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), which is more militant.
The violence has been triggered by a turf war between the long-established National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the newly-formed Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), which is more militant, analysts say.
Part of the background to this complex dispute is the rivalry between two unions - the long-established National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the newly-formed AMCU, which is more militant.
But the main casualty of such action would be the city of Mosul, about 30 miles away, which is the militants' main stronghold in Iraq and home to a mainly Sunni Muslim population.
"It's like morphine to pacify the people," says Khaled al-Batsh of Islamic Jihad, which is even more militant than Hamas.
The hotel is popular with Western visitors, United Nations workers, diplomats and and French soldiers based in Burkina Faso for Operation Barkhana, which is fighting Islamist militants across the Sahel region.
I crossed from African-Union held Kismayo, which until a year ago was an al-Shabab stronghold, 10km (six miles) north to the village of Gobweyn, which is where the militants now launch their attacks from.
The military said that he was killed early this morning along with two other suspected militants in the South Waziristan tribal area, which is home to various militant groups fighting in both countries.
