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Two Wounded as Hamas Clashes with Gaza Hardliners
2016-12-08
Just another day on the dangerous streets of Hamas's Gaza. Someone was in the wrong place at the wrong time -- a price must be paid for that.
[AnNahar] A police officer and a youth were hospitalised on Tuesday after Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", forces clashed with hardline Islamists in the Gazoo Strip, a medical source and witnesses said.

Both men suffered bullet wounds during an attempt by Gazoo security forces to arrest two men from a Salafist group, followers of an ultra-conservative form of Islam, a witness said.

The young man, believed to be a Salafist, was at death's door, while the policeman's condition was not life threatening, the medical source said.

The witness said a grenade was thrown at security forces raiding a house in al-Fukhari in the southern Gazoo Strip, sparking festivities.

Hamas, which rules Gazoo, is an Islamist party but is frequently criticised by more conservative Islamists, including hardliners who sympathise with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.

The hardliners sporadically fire rockets at Israel, prompting retaliation against Hamas targets.

Israel holds Hamas responsible for all rocket fire from Gazoo, regardless of who launches it.

In an unrelated incident, a fighter of Hamas's military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, was killed accidentally.

"Ahmad Mansour, 30 and from Jabalia in northern Gazoo, died on Monday night when a grenade went kaboom! by accident," a Qassam statement said.

Two Palestinians killed in Gaza tunnel collapse

[IsraelTimes] At least two Palestinians were killed and at least one other was injured Wednesday in the collapse of a tunnel in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said. Local reports said the cave-in occurred in the Shejaiya neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip, around half a kilometer from the border fence with Israel.

The Gaza health ministry identified the two as Ismail Shmali and Rami al-Areir, both in their 20s. It said a third person was injured.

Israeli media outlets identified the men as Hamas members. Tunnels in the northern Gaza Strip are usually used by the terrorist groups to infiltrate into Israel or for moving armed men around without being detected by Israel.

Earlier this week four Palestinians were found dead in a smuggling tunnel linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, local officials said Sunday, accusing the Egyptian military of flooding it.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-12-08 12:27  

#2  followers of an ultra-conservative form of Islam

It gets worse?
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-12-08 11:21  

#1  Not quite Syria, yet.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-12-08 02:13  

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