Abdel-Latif Moussa The leader of an al-Qa'ida-inspired group in the Gaza Strip
The leader of an al-Qa'ida-inspired group in the Gaza Strip blew himself up during a shootout today with security forces that killed 22 people. The jihadis have posed one of the biggest challenges to Hamas since the militant group seized power in Gaza two years ago.
The fighting erupted yesterday when Hamas security men surrounded a mosque in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on the Egypt border where about 100 members of Jund Ansar Allah, or the Soldiers of the Companions of God, were holed up. Flares lit up the sky overnight as Hamas machine gun fire and rocket propelled grenades slammed into the mosque. The militants inside the structure returned fire with automatic weapons and grenades of their own.The head of the radical Islamic group, Abdel-Latif Moussa, was killed when fighting resumed after dawn this morning, Ihab Ghussein, a Hamas Interior Ministry spokesman, told The Associated Press. Source: AP
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