Hamas security forces kill rival activist in Gaza shoot-out - witnesses

GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas security forces killed an activist of a rival Islamist militant group in a shoot-out at his Gaza home on Tuesday, witnesses said. A spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry identified the man, Younis al-Honnor, only as a "lawbreaker", and said he was shot dead after firing at security officers who came to arrest him. Local residents who witnessed the incident said Honnor was an activist in a Salafi group. Hamas, an Islamist militant movement that governs the Gaza Strip, has mounted occasional crackdowns on rival and more radical Salafi groups that support global holy war endorsed by Islamic State and al Qaeda. "(Honnor) had booby-trapped the house he was in. Explosive belts, explosive devices and rifle-propelled grenades were found inside," the spokesman said. (Reporting by Nidal Almughrabi; Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Ralph Boulton)