Daesh warns Hamas

BEIRUT: Daesh terrorists have threatened to turn the Gaza Strip into another of their Middle East fiefdoms, accusing Hamas, the organization that rules the Palestinian territory, of being insufficiently stringent about religious enforcement.
“We will uproot the state of the Jews (Israel) and you and Fatah, and all of the secularists are nothing and you will be overrun by our creeping multitudes,” said a masked Daesh member in the message addressed to the “tyrants of Hamas,” Reuters said.
“The rule of Shariah will be implemented in Gaza, in spite of you. We swear that what is happening in the Levant today, and in particular the Yarmouk camp, will happen in Gaza,” he said, referring to Daesh advances in Syria, including in a Damascus district founded by Palestinian refugees.
The video statement, issued from an Daesh stronghold in Syria, was a rare public challenge to Hamas, which has been cracking down on militants in Gaza who oppose its policies.
On Tuesday, Israel’s intelligence minister, Israel Katz, accused Hamas of partnering with Daesh affiliates in the Egyptian Sinai — a charge long denied by the Palestinian group.
“There is cooperation between them in the realm of weapons smuggling and terrorist attacks.”