<c>Abdul-Latif Moussa blows himself
up in the Gaza Strip yesterday after Hamas mosque raid(link)</c>
From The Sunday Times August 16, 2009
Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv
A RADICAL Islamic cleric blew himself up in the Gaza Strip yesterday after a shootout with security forces in which 28 people were killed and 150 injured.
Abdul-Latif Moussa was the head of a group inspired by Al-Qaeda in the southern town of Rafah, near the Egyptian border. He defied Hamas, the Islamic party that has controlled Gaza since it seized power in 2007, during a sermon at Friday prayers by declaring Rafah an "Islamic emirate" where even stricter theocratic rule would apply.
This was a direct challenge to the authority of Hamas, which ordered the mosque to be stormed. Residents of the town, which is still sealed off, described a night of terrifying violence. (snip)
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Moussa, a doctor as well as a cleric, died after a negotiator was sent at dawn yesterday to agree terms of surrender. Moussa was wearing a suicide vest and blew up both himself and the mediator, according to witnesses. Among the dead were three children and six Hamas security men.
This article is self explanatory. As a sole result of the discouraging impact of Zionist influence, Gazans are dying. These are people who, but for Israeli imperialism, would be constructive, peaceful people.