(Jerusalem Post) Mahmoud Abd al-Fattah and David E. Miller - An explosion in Deir el-Balah in Gaza on Monday that obliterated eight homes, damaged another 30 and wounded over 50 people, originated in a weapons factory in an uninhabited house belonging to Alaa al-Danaf, a field commander of Izzadin Kassam, the military wing of Hamas. Local residents said that in the past they had appealed to Hamas to cease their activities but were quickly silenced. Hamdi Shaqqura, a spokesman for the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, said armed groups try to hide the existence of bombs in residential areas because local residents "would not agree to live on a barrel of explosives."
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