Gaza: Al qaeda's Gaza cell plotting next move

After the bomb attacks in Taba and Sharm el-Sheik in Egypt and in Amman, Jordan, al-Qaeda boosted by its new cell in the Gaza Strip may make its next target Tel Aviv, an Italian weekly newsmagazine reports.

This week's edition of News Settimanale, which will be available at newstands in Italy on Thursday, carries a report on a fledgling al-Qaeda cell allegedly formed in Gaza in the aftermath of the Israeli withdrawal from the territory in September.

''Recently pamphlets have been distributed and videos have appeared on Islamic sites on the Internet that prove [the existence of the cell]," the report says. The cell which first emerged in August has recently discarded the name of Organisation of al-Qaeda in the Land of the Outposts in favour of the more combative name Qaeda of the Jihad in Palestine, the report said.

Its first terrorist act was a missile strike against the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, an attack for which the group claimed responsibility through a video posted on the Internet.