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| Hamas claims to arrest senior Islamic State leaders in Gaza |
| 2017-10-08 |
| [IsraelTimes] Terror group is mending relations with Egypt, which is fighting a bitter conflict with IS in the Sinai Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, forces in the Gazoo Strip have tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! four senior 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... members, including the group’s leader in the coastal enclave, the terror group said Saturday. "This morning, security forces arrested Nour Issa, 27, who is a leader of the deviant thought movement and is from Bureij Camp in central Gazoo, along with others," a Hamas source said, using a phrase routinely used to refer to jihadists, including IS. The internal security service confirmed on its Facebook page that it had made a number of arrests. "One of the leaders of the deviant thought has been arrested along with others," it said, without giving a name. Issa and three others were holding a meeting in the house of one of the members in the southern Gazoo city of Rafah when they were arrested. A large stash of weapons were also found, Hebrew media reports said. Hamas has run Gazoo for a decade but it has been challenged by small hardline factions, some of them inspired by IS, who advocate a stricter, Salafist interpretation of Islam. Some have carried out sporadic rocket attacks into Israel in defiance of an informal truce agreed by Hamas. In August, a jacket wallah allegedly linked to IS killed a Hamas guard in southern Gazoo along the border with Egypt, in a rare attack against the Islamists. The arrests also come amid attempts by Hamas and the Fatah party to resolve a decade-long split and see the Paleostinian Authority return to rule over Gazoo. Talks are set to continue in Egypt next week. Egypt has been key to facilitating the deal after Hamas and Cairo mended long-strained ties. Relations between Hamas and Egypt were hampered, particularly over Hamas’ support for Islamic forces of Evil fighting Egypt in the Sinai and Hamas ties to the Moslem Brüderbund. As part of the rapprochement, Hamas has been trying to convince Egypt that it is a reliable security partner. It has deployed more troops along the border with Egypt’s northern Sinai region, where the Egyptian military is battling the so-called "Sinai Province" of IS. Hamas also recently made a gesture toward Egypt with a new policy document that dropped its longtime association with the Moslem Brüderbund and identified itself as a Paleostinian movement fighting only against what it calls Israeli occupation. Egypt also controls the enclave’s southern border, which is mostly closed for the 2 million residents of Gazoo as part of an Israeli and Egyptian blockade. Israel and Egypt have enforced the blockade, citing security reasons, since the Hamas terror group seized control of Gazoo a decade ago. Hamas previously had close cooperation with IS. Hamas had refused to crack down on smuggling by IS through tunnels run by its members under the Gazoo-Sinai border. Instead, the Paleostinian terror group has looked to this activity as a source of income, taxing imports. |
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