 An activist of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement of Hamas named Mustafa Al Aqqad, 19, was kidnapped by unknown gunmen Friday in Khan Yunus city south of Gaza Strip, said eyewitnesses. They said the young man called his family from his mobile shortly before being kidnapped and told them that armed men were chasing him on his way to the mosque.Tens of his relatives demonstrated near a security complex in the city urging for freeing Aqqad. No party has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping yet. Yusuf Seyyam, a Palestinian security official told a local radio station that he denies Hamas accusation that the Palestinian security authorities were behind the abduction. "The precautionary security is a foundation that serves Palestinians and defends their rights, and could not kidnap and terrorize the citizens," he said.| "No! Certainly not! We are way too weak and underarmed to compete with the hard boyz in Hamas and PIJ, so we don't even try." |
Two days ago, a bomb exploded in front of the house of a former security director in the city. |