Medics : 4 killed in Gaza explosion | Maan News Agency
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GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Four People were killed and six others suffered injuries after an explosion in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, a medical official said.
Ashraf al-Qidra said that Mohammad Tayseer al-Hamdeen , 26, Bilal al-Hamdeen, Jafaar Odwaan and a fourth unidentified man were killed in the explosion.
Six others were injured including two children and a woman in critical condition, he added.
The four were all affiliated with Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades, and they arrived dead at the hospital, a Ma’an reporter said.
The house was severely damaged, and the cause of the explosion was not immediately clear.
Earlier, an Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip, the same official said.
Al-Qidra told Ma’an that three resistance fighters were killed by the airstrike in southeast Khan Younis near the Sufa crossing.
He identified the victims as Ismail Abu Judah , 23, Shahir Abu Shanab , 24, and 33-year-old Abd al-Shafi Muammar.
The bodies were taken to the European Hospital in Khan Younis, al-Qidra said.The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, said in a statement that the victims were militants affiliated to the group.
“They were in confrontation with the occupation trying to stop the progress of Israeli military vehicles which were approaching the area,” the statement said.
The Israeli army said in a statement that “terrorists affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the southern Gaza Strip fired a mortar shell at IDF forces.”
