There were reports coming from Gaza this week that Hamas was losing patience with the Jund Ansar Allah - or Soldiers of the Companions of God.
Abdel-Latif Moussa, Jund Ansar Allah's spiritual leader, died in a Hamas raid
An unsuccessful attempt was apparently made to detain the military commander of the group, a man going by the nickname of Abu Adbullah al-Muhajir.
When Hamas security men approached him as he was leaving a mosque, Muhajir and his bodyguards threatened to detonate explosive belts they were wearing and escaped.
Hamas told the group to cancel the prayers, something it refused to do. Attempts at negotiation failed and Hamas decided to end the rise of Jund Ansar Allah.
The group maintains that a return to a purer form of Islam is needed and that Sharia law must be implemented, and rejects democracy as un-Islamic.
The smuggling of weapons into Gaza is almost entirely controlled by Hamas. The fact that the group appears to have been relatively well-armed would point to at least some of its members being former militants from other groups, including Hamas.
Uncompromising message
The Jund Ansar Islam is one of a handful of radical al-Qaeda-inspired groups to have appeared in the Gaza Strip in recent years.
Since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip two years ago, these groups have been seen as a challenge to its authority, and Hamas has stomped on them hard.
But dealing with them has presented Hamas with a real problem. Hamas's full title is the Islamic Resistance Movement, and it faces opposition from within its own membership and its support base if it cracks down too hard on groups for engaging in acts of resistance against Israel.
This week Hamas decided that it had had enough. Hamas fought with the radical Islamist group. Its raid on a mosque killed, Abdel-Latif Moussa, Jund Ansar Allah's spiritual leader.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8203362.stm
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