No one has claimed responsibility officially for the attack on a building where a festival organised by the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees was taking place. The “non Islamic” festival had been threatened because mixed games, that is, for boys and girls, were to be held.

Gaza (AsiaNews/Agencies) - No one has claimed responsibility so far for an attack on an elementary school in southern Gaza Strip but the evidence points to a Muslim group as the most likely perpetrators. The attack, carried out by men who fired shots and threw bombs, killed one man and wounded seven people.

The man killed was a bodyguard of Majed Abu Shamaleh, a Fatah official, who was taking part in a festival organised was the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), whose local official John Ging, escaped unhurt in the attack.

Shamaleh said that in recent days, threats had been made against the planned celebration, because it included mixed games between girls and boys and was thus branded as being “against Islam”. The chief of the UN agency was further accused of “distancing people from Islam”.

Palestinian police confirmed that they arrested two of the attackers who are undergoing interrogation.

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