Three people were killed and several others were injured in an accidental explosion Wednesday in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian news portal Al Resalah reported.
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Smoke from explosion in Gaza Strip [file] – Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
By Ari Yashar
A Sinai-based terrorist group has acknowledged that one of its founders, who took part in the 2011 coordinated attack on Eilat that killed eight Israelis, died last Tuesday. The terrorist was involved in a car crash, which detonated the explosives he was transporting.
The terrorist, identified as Tuwafik Mohammed Frij or “Abu Abdallah,” was a leader of the Salafist Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis terror organization that has claimed responsibility for firing Grad rockets at Eilat. Continue Reading »
Four Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in a house explosion in the northern Gaza Strip village of Beit Hanoun, in what local officials have termed a work accident.
Armed militants at the funeral of Islamic Jihad activists killed in Gaza on March 11, 2014.- Photo: Reuters
The ruling Hamas movement reported on its website that the four were activists in its Izz a-Din Al-Qassam military wing, and said that their bodies were transferred to a hospital in Gaza.
An explosion Saturday in the southern Gaza Strip killed at least one terrorist and wounded nine more, medical sources said.
“The explosion occurred during a training session in bomb-making,” said a statement from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamist Hamas movement that controls Gaza.
Source have identified the dead man as Ibrahim al-Ghoul, a local Hamas commander.
The blast took place at a house in the southern town of Rafah, on the Egyptian border.
Witnesses had previously described most of the injured, including two seriously hurt, as “activists” – a term often used by Palestinian Arab sources to describe members of terrorist groups operating in the Islamist-controlled territory. Continue Reading »
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