GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Five car bombs were detonated simultaneously in the center of Gaza City and in its southern neighborhood of Sheikh Radwan Sunday morning leaving two Palestinians injured. Graffiti on a wall near the bombings read "Daesh," the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group (IS), although no group has taken official responsibility for the attacks. Three of the cars were reportedly owned by members of Hamas, while the other two were owned by members of the Islamic Jihad. Shrapnel from the blasts hit residential houses, shattering windows and injuring two people who were transferred to a local hospital. No deaths were reported. Hamas officials have opened an investigation on the explosions. Since last summer's devastating war in Gaza, there have been growing signs of internal unrest between Hamas security forces and other militant groups, with a string of small-scale explosions. Many of the more recent attacks are believed to be the work of fringe S...

The national leadership of the UK’s National Union of Students (NUS) has voted to align itself with the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. In reaction, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by smearing the millions-strong organization as supporters of Islamic State, the violent extremist group also known as ISIS or ISIL. “In a 19-4 vote with one abstention, the confederation of 600 student unions across the United Kingdom passed the pro-BDS proposal on Tuesday at a meeting of its National Executive Council,” according to JTA. The NUS press office could not immediately provide The Electronic Intifada with an official copy of the resolution, but said it would be posted on its website in coming days. Netanyahu’s smear “This is less than a year after they refused to support a boycott of ISIS,” Netanyahu said in reaction to the vote, during a meeting with Canada’s foreign minister. “They boycott Israel but they refuse to boycott ISIS. Tha...

Proponents of ISIS in the Gaza Strip have issued Hamas a 48-hour deadline to stop its crackdown on them, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. In a statement sent to the media, the ISIS supporters claimed responsibility for a rocket fired at Israel from Gaza, last week. The claim could not be independently verified. PNN reports that Hamas, which has ruled over Gaza since 2007, has clamped down on radical Islamists after a series of unclaimed bombings, arresting activists and seizing arms. The ISIS-supporters accuse Hamas of being soft on Israel and failing to impose religious law. It’s unclear how many ISIS supporters are in Gaza, or if any have operational links to the group. On Tuesday, Hamas security forces killed an activist of a rival Islamist militant group in a shoot-out at his Gaza home, witnesses said. A spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry identified the man, Younis al-Honnor, only as a “lawbreaker”, and said he was shot dead after firing at security office...