On June 1, Dhaka Metropolitan Police's (DMP) Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested three cadres of Ansar al-Islam, identified as Shakil Ahmed, Fardin Ahmed Mirdul, and Rayhan Hosain, from the Wari Police Station area in Dhaka District of Dhaka Division, reports The Daily Star. The Deputy Commissioner of the DMP at the CTTC unit, Jahidul Hoque Talukder, said that Ansar al-Islam raised BDT 1800000 through crowdfunding within a few months after launching a platform called “Deen Islam Foundation" on Facebook in the name of sending aid to victims in Palestine.