Yahoo – AFP,
22 March 2013
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| AFP/File
- A picture taken from the southern Israeli town of Sderot shows four rockets being launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel on November 16, 2012. |
Gaza's
Hamas rulers have arrested two Salafist militants, sources close to the
Palestinian Islamist hardliners said Friday, after a Salafist group claimed a
rocket attack on Israel.
According
to the sources, "the Hamas internal security forces arrested two of our
Salafist brothers" in the centre of the Gaza Strip.
A coalition
of Salafist groups in Gaza, which oppose the Hamas regime, claimed
responsibility for the firing of two rockets at southern Israel on Thursday
while US President Barack Obama was visiting the Jewish state.
In a
statement headlined "The demolition of Sderot by rocket bombardment in
reaction to the visit of the dog Obama," the Mujahedeen Shura Council had
said it was responsible for an attack launched from Gaza.
Two rockets
hit southern Israel, one landing in the town of Sderot, before Obama travelled
from Jerusalem to the West Bank city of Ramallah to hold talks with president
Mahmud Abbas, leader of the Palestinian Authority.
Israel
retaliated by halving the distance from the shore that Gaza fishermen are
allowed to sail and shutting the Kerem Shalom goods crossing from Israel into
the territory, a military statement said.
It added
that the sanctions would remain in place until the military received fresh
instructions from the government.
The
relations of the Islamist movement Hamas with hardline groups in Gaza have
sharply deteriorated since it violently cracked down on Salafist radicals in
2009.
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