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Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Islamic Jihad fighter killed, 2 injured in tunnel collapse east of Khan Younis

Islamic Jihad fighter killed, 2 injured in tunnel collapse east of Khan
Younis
July 19, 2016 12:10 P.M. (Updated: July 19, 2016 4:50 P.M.)
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772287

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- A Palestinian fighter affiliated with the Islamic Jihad
movement was killed and two others were injured inside a tunnel which
collapsed on Monday night underneath Israel's southern border with the
besieged Gaza Strip.

The Islamic Jihad movement said in a statement that one of its fighters
“died [as a] martyr during a Jihad mission” during the tunnel collapse,
without giving more details.

The statement identified the “fighter” as Salih Muhammad al-Astal from
al-Qarara, north of the city of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.


Local medical sources in Gaza confirmed that two other fighters were injured
in the same tunnel collapse.

The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported earlier that the injured
and deceased were evacuated to Nasser Hospital in the city.


Al-Astal's death marks the second death of an Islamic Jihad fighter as a
result of a tunnel collapse this month.


A number of Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in the vast tunnel
networks that lie below the besieged enclave, which are largely used for
smuggling in the coastal enclave's south and military purposes in the north.

The Hamas movement which governs the blockaded Palestinian territory has
been allegedly reconstructing a vast tunnel network intended to be used for
carrying out attacks on Israeli military targets and civilians, swathes of
which were destroyed during Israel's brutal offensive on Gaza in 2014.

While the tunnels are used by Hamas as a source of tax revenue and inflow of
weapons from the south, they also supply highly-demanded necessities for
Gazans including food, medicine, and much-needed infrastructure materials.

The Institute for Palestine Studies reported in 2012 that Hamas authorities
had counted 160 deaths inside the tunnels since the Israeli blockade began
in 2007, and in August 2014, al-Jazeera reported that figure to be as high
as 400.

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