
A jihadist group that recently emerged in the Gaza Strip claimed Friday a mortar attack on a base belonging to the Islamist Hamas movement in charge of the blockaded territory.
The group calling itself Supporters of Daesh in Jerusalem said it fired two 82 mm mortar rounds at a base of Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
A statement posted online also urged "Muslims in Gaza to stay away from the base in order to protect their own lives".
Witnesses told AFP they heard explosions close to Khan Yunis.
But the spokesman of the interior ministry in Gaza, Iyad al-Bozum, denied any mortar fire.
The group's claim is "baseless," he told AFP.
A bomb attack this week targeted Hamas's security headquarters in Gaza after radical Islamists issued a threatening message calling for the release of prisoners.
Hamas security forces arrested a Salafist leader last month, alleging that he was a supporter of Daesh group that holds vast swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
Gazan jihadists have pledged allegiance to Daesh in the past, but there has been no confirmation from the group itself that it has a presence in the coastal enclave.
Source: AFP
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