A bomb damaged the security headquarters of Hamas in Gaza, witnesses tell AFP.
Islamic radicals in the Gaza Strip previously gave Hamas an ultimatum to release Salafists held in Hamas prisons.
In a statement posted hours before the explosion, an obscure group apparently formed recently said, “We give Hamas and its security services 72 hours from the dissemination of this press release to release all our Salafist prisoners.”
“All our soldiers are ready to focus on objectives chosen at the end of the ultimatum,” reads the text by the “Partisans of the Islamic State in Jerusalem.”
A month ago, Hamas security services arrested a radical Salafist sheikh, accusing him of belonging to the Islamic State group, an extremist Sunni terror group. Palestinian media also reported recently on a series of arrests in Salafist circles. Hamas has cracked down hard on Salafi groups in Gaza in the past.
— AFP
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