Series of unexplained explosions kill Hamas commander
A powerful explosion ripped through a car on a busy Gaza City beach, killing a Hamas field commander and three other people.
By Agencies |
GAZA CITY: A powerful explosion ripped through a car on a busy Gaza City beach, killing a Hamas field commander and three other people, security officials said.
It was the third unexplained blast of the day in this coastal territory after a relatively calm period since Israel and the Islamic militants of Hamas agreed on a cease-fire last month. A total of five people died from the explosions, and 23 suffered injuries.
No one in Gaza blamed Israel for the violence, indicating it was likely Palestinian infighting.
The late yesterday night blast killed Amar Musubah, a Hamas military field commander, and another Hamas militant, Eyad Al-Hia, medical officials said. A child and a fourth unknown individual also died.
Earlier, unknown assailants set off two bombs in Gaza City, killing one man.
The first explosion took place just after midnight outside the Al Jazera cafe. The cafe had been hit two other times this year in similar attacks presumably perpetrated by hard-line Muslims who target record shops and other sites they see as signs of Western influence.
The powerful blast wounded three people and killed the man who set off the bomb, Hamas officials said.
Another bomb exploded outside the house of a Hamas lawmaker, Marwan Abu Rass, not long afterward, causing light damage but no casualties, the officials said. An activist in the rival Fatah movement led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was arrested as a suspect.
Hamas officials said police were investigating all the blasts.
It was the third unexplained blast of the day in this coastal territory after a relatively calm period since Israel and the Islamic militants of Hamas agreed on a cease-fire last month. A total of five people died from the explosions, and 23 suffered injuries.
No one in Gaza blamed Israel for the violence, indicating it was likely Palestinian infighting.
The late yesterday night blast killed Amar Musubah, a Hamas military field commander, and another Hamas militant, Eyad Al-Hia, medical officials said. A child and a fourth unknown individual also died.
Earlier, unknown assailants set off two bombs in Gaza City, killing one man.
The first explosion took place just after midnight outside the Al Jazera cafe. The cafe had been hit two other times this year in similar attacks presumably perpetrated by hard-line Muslims who target record shops and other sites they see as signs of Western influence.
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The powerful blast wounded three people and killed the man who set off the bomb, Hamas officials said.
Another bomb exploded outside the house of a Hamas lawmaker, Marwan Abu Rass, not long afterward, causing light damage but no casualties, the officials said. An activist in the rival Fatah movement led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was arrested as a suspect.
Hamas officials said police were investigating all the blasts.
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