Three explosions rocked Gaza City early Sunday, damaging two Internet cafes and a Christian bookstore.

No one was hurt and no group claimed responsibility for the blasts, which took place around 3 a.m. local time, Palestinian security officials said.

But heavy external damage was visible at the three stores. At the bookstore, which is funded by American Protestants and known as the Bible Society, a number of books were also burned in the explosion.

Several similar attacks on Internet cafes and music stores in recent months have been claimed by a little-known extremist Islamic organization calling itself the Swords of Truth...

...In recent months, about three dozen Internet cafes and shops selling pop music have been attacked in the Gaza Strip, with assailants detonating small bombs outside businesses at night, causing damage but no injuries. Palestinian security officials have said they suspect a secret vice squad of Muslim militants.

Bombs damaged a Christian bookstore and an Internet cafe in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian police said. There was no claim of responsibility.

While attacks against Christian sites in the territory are rare, at least 40 Internet cafes and video cassette shops have been blown up in the past several months [define "good"]. Many of these bombings were claimed by a previously unknown group, "The Righteous Swords of Islam".

Local residents said an explosion, shortly before dawn, at the Protestant Holy Bible Society in Gaza City, blew out windows and ignited a fire that burned shelves of books. Police said a bomb caused the blast.

Elsewhere in Gaza City, a bomb destroyed an Internet cafe, police said.

At least 3,000 Christians live among the 1.5 million Palestinians in the conservatively Muslim Gaza Strip. Relations between Muslims and Christians in the territory have been good [except for those malcontents who have been trying to emigrate as fast as possible]...