Hamas arrests Salafists in Gaza
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Palestinians sit around the grave of Haitham Al-Mes-hal, who
relatives said belonged to a militant Jihadist Salafi organisation,
after his burial at a cemetery in Gaza City April 30, 2013. (Reuters)
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AFP, Gaza -
The Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers have arrested several radical
Salafists, the Palestinian movement’s interior ministry said on
Thursday, two days after Israel carried out an air strike on a militant
in the territory.
“The internal security apparatus has arrested
fanatics calling themselves Salafists, for security and criminal
reasons. There were no arrests made for ideological or political
reasons,” a ministry statement said.
“Four of those arrested
were taken in on suspicion of stealing rockets belonging to Hamas, and
two others for causing an unspecified explosion that resulted in “human
and material damage,” it added, without giving a total number.
The Mujahedeen Shura Council (MSC) Salafist group, one of whose members
was killed in the air strike on Gaza City on Tuesday, said the jihadists
were being detained for ideological reasons.
Salafists in Gaza
-- who are considered more hardline than the Islamist Hamas -- have
challenged the movement both over confrontations with Israel and the
practice of Islamic rule, prompting it to crack down on their militant
activities.
The MSC implicitly denied stealing any rockets.
Israel’s air force targeted Haitham al-Mishal as he rode his motorcycle
in western Gaza City on Tuesday, it said in a statement.
Israel said Mishal was involved in an April 17 rocket attack launched
from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, adjoining Gaza, which struck the Israeli
Red Sea resort of Eilat causing no casualties.
The MSC has
claimed a number of rocket attacks in the past few months, all except
that of April 17 being launched from the Gaza Str
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