Gaza, July 22: An explosion at a wedding ceremony in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis left at least 40 Palestinians wounded, including 20 with serious injuries, witnesses and paramedics said.
The witnesses said that a bomb detonated while the Dahlan clan, the family of Fatah movement senior leader Mohamed Dahlan, was celebrating a wedding party in their home in a Khan Younis neighborhood.
Paramedics said that ambulances were immediately called after the explosion, which wrecked the wedding party.
The Islamic Hamas movement police said that right after the explosion, the police forces found a second, undetonated bomb. The police said that the circumstances of the explosion were under investigation.
Dahlan fled the Gaza Strip after the Hamas movement seized control of the enclave in June 2007. Hamas was able to take over Gaza after its militants routed the security forces of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who leads Fatah.
-Agencies