Unknown attackers have bombed a car belonging to a security official of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian interior ministry says.
“A home-made bomb damaged a car belonging to a military police officer which was parked in front of his house in Gaza City, without causing casualties,” ministry spokesman Iyad al-Buzum said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
The car belonged to Helmi Khalaf, administrative and financial manager of the military police in the besieged enclave, witnesses said.
In April last year, Hamas agreed to work with the Fatah movement, the dominant political party in the West Bank, to form an interim unity government.
The resistance movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, officially stepped down when the unity cabinet took office in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on June 2, 2014. However, it remains in de facto control of the enclave.
Hamas says Palestinian government in the West Bank has given up its responsibility toward the Gaza Strip.