Gaza Resort Bombed For Holding Mixed-Gender Concert

Bianco Resort, one of the Gaza Strip’s most luxurious seaside tourist sites, was attacked last Thursday with an explosive device.

The attack came after the resort was accused by Muslim extremists of holding a mixed-gender concert. No one was hurt, but a wall surrounding the resort was damaged. 

Palestinian sources accused terrorists belonging to Salafi-Jihadist groups of being behind the attack. 

Members of the Islamic State (ISIS)-inspired groups in the Gaza Strip accused the resort of holding a music concert for men and women on the beach of Beit Hahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.

Some members of the groups said that they warned the owner of the resort against holding the event, but he ignored the warning. 

Salafi-Jihadist terrorists have regularly clashed with Hamas members in the Gaza Strip over the past decade. Hamas has also arrested or killed some members of the groups. 

On August 5, Issa Miqdad, one of the men affiliated with the Salafi-Jihadist groups, wrote on his Facebook post: “Today we went to Bianco Resort in order to deny the evil before it happens, as this resort will hold a mixed singing party tomorrow on the beach of Beit Lahiya. Therefore, we ask the [Hamas] government to stop this evil before it happens. I call on all preachers and sheikhs to publicly denounce this evil after the owner refused our request not to hold the party.”