On Tuesday, dozens of Hamas members took control of a mosque in the town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip and arrested a prominent figure associated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to the Tazpit Press Service.
Eyewitnesses reported that dozens of members of Hamas’s “Restraint Police” stormed Rafah’s Al Awda mosque, considered one of PIJ’s centers of power, and a meeting place for its operatives. The Restraint Police are tasked with maintaining calm on the Israel-Gaza border by preventing demonstrations and rocket fire.
