(Jerusalem Post) Masked gunmen from an Islamist group torched a UN-run summer camp in Gaza on Sunday, Israel Army Radio reported. The top UN aid official in Gaza, John Ging, said the assailants tied up the guard, burned tents, and left behind three bullets and a note threatening to kill Ging unless the UN cancels its activities for some 250,000 Gaza children. Two days before the incident, the "Free of the Homeland" group issued a statement criticizing the UN for "teaching schoolgirls fitness, dancing and immorality."
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