“Officials in Gaza said the militants killed in the Little Satan airstrike belonged to the Popular Resistance Committees, a group that has worked in the past with Hamas. The leader of the Popular Resistance Committees’ military wing was among those killed in the strike, which hit a house in Rafah, in southern Gaza. Some of the group’s members are known to have gone over to the Army of “Slam, a shadowy extremist group operating in Gaza.”
Interrogations of terrorist suspects arrested by Egypt have revealed that the Palestinian Army of “Slam organization, which identifies with global j!had, has been working to establish an al-Qaida branch in Sinai. As part of these efforts, a training base was set up in el-Arish last February. Around 2,000 operatives went there to receive weapons training. The purpose of the training was to establish a global j!had force in Sinai that would act to drive out Egyptian and multi-national forces that are deployed in Sinai. In recent months, terrorists have attacked government sites in northern Sinai (including five attacks on the pipeline that Egypt uses to provide Little Satan and that Hashemite Jordan place with gas).