The reference was to two rocket attacks from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
toward Israel and Jordan in 2010. In one strike, a Jordanian was killed and
four others injured by a Katyusha rocket that landed in the southern city of
Aqaba.
Nimnim, 25, was a resident of the Palestinian refugee camp of Shati,
just west of Gaza City. Army of Islam, which has conducted several major
strikes, has identified itself as inspired by Al Qaida.
In 2007, the group abducted British journalist Alan Johnston and held him for
four months. Nimnim, identified as a leading aide to Army of Islam commander
Mumtaz Dughmoush, was also said to have been involved in the abduction of an
Israeli soldier in 2006.
Hamas has acknowledged the death of Nimnim, who had been arrested by the
Islamic regime. Hamas officials said an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle
fired a rocket that killed Nimnim in downtown Gaza City.
"Palestinian ambulance workers and medical officials said they recovered
one body from the site of an explosion that occurred early Wednesday evening
near the Palestinian universities in the middle of Gaza City," a Hamas
statement said.
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