Happy Independence Day! Now here’s a story about the evil maggots of ISIS gaining even more ground in the Middle East.
From the Daily Mail:
Senior official makes first admission by Hamas that ISIS operating in Gaza – but claims the threat is small and Hamas can deal with it.
After months of denial, Hamas has finally admitted that the ISIS terrorist group has established a network in Gaza.
ISIS-affiliated jihadist groups in Gaza have carried out sporadic rocket attacks against Israel over the past several months, shattering the delicate ceasefire between Israel and Gazan terrorist factions. The attacks have been seen both as a direct attack on Israel, as well as a challenge to Hamas – and specifically intended, security experts say, to provoke an Israeli response against Hamas.
And:
…on Friday, for the first time a senior Hamas official admitted ISIS has a presence in Gaza.
In an interview with Hamas’s Al Quds TV, senior spokesperson and Political Bureau official Mousa Abu Marzouk responded to a recent video message from ISIS fighters in the Syria city of Aleppo, in which the groupthreatened to overthrow Hamas.
“Why do they want to turn Gaza into a sea of blood, and what capabilities does this group have to threaten like this?” Marzouk retorted.
He claimed there were mere “dozens” of ISIS members in Gaza and that they “are not organized,” while vowing that Hamas authorities would soon stamp them out.
“I believe they are extending the prisons [to accommodate them – ed.]” he said.
Most analysts believe ISIS’s presence in Gaza – while still relatively small – is significantly larger than Marzouk’s estimates, ranging from several hundred to a few thousand active members or affiliated terrorists.
So Obama’s favorite JV team has extended its shadow into another region. As much as he hates Israel, it makes you wonder who he’d be cheering for…