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Gaza health ministry denies treating IS militants injured in Egypt's Sinai

Xinhua, February 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Hamas-run Health Ministry denied on Monday media reports that hospitals in the Gaza Strip are providing medical treatment to Islamic State (IS) militants who are wounded in Sinai of Egypt.

Such reports "cause tension and are totally untrue," Ashraf al-Qedra, the ministry's spokesman, said in an emailed press statement.

Earlier on Monday, The Times of Israel news website reported that a senior Israeli official told a Saudi paper that IS militants enter Gaza through tunnels from Egypt and receive medical treatment in Hamas-run hospitals.

A number of small Salafist groups in Gaza claim links to the IS, some of whom have been trying to wrest some control of the coastal enclave from Hamas, the report said.

Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip since 2007, repeatedly denied reports published by Egyptian and Israeli media that the it has ties with the IS and helps its militants who are active in the Egyptian Peninsula of Sinai. Endit