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Five militants were killed and ten others injured after the Israeli army bombarded on Monday a tunnel underneath the borders between southeast Gaza Strip and Israel, medics and security sources said.
Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman of Gaza health ministry, told reporters that five Palestinians were killed and ten injured, after the Israeli army bombed an area southeast of the Gaza Strip, close to the borders with Israel.
He said that Ahmad Abu Armana, 25 and Omar al-Falit, 27 and Musbah Shubair, 30, Arafat Abu Morshed, 29 and Hassan Abu Hassanein, 28, were killed and ten others injured.
Security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Israeli army bombarded with several bombs a tunnel that was dug underneath the borderline area between southeast Gaza Strip and Israel.
They said ten people were stuck for a while into the destroyed tunnel, and contact with them was disconnected, adding that the ten are members of the Islamic Jihad's armed wing, better known as Saraya al-Quds, or al-Quds Brigades.
Eyewitnesses said one of the ten militants, were stuck in the tunnel, was killed, while the other four, were killed as they rushed to the destroyed tunnel to rescue the lives of the other nine people were stuck in the tunnel and were injured.
Islamic Jihad spokesman in Gaza Dawood Shihab told reporters "Our response to this crime will be taken in the right moment .. this is an attempt to mix up the situation after the attempt of assassinating General Tawfiq Abu Ne'em on Friday.
Earlier on Monday, the Israeli army announced that an underground tunnel that goes from southern Gaza into Israel was blown up and destroyed, adding that the tunnel is 2-kilometer long and it is under construction.
Israel held Islamic Hamas movement responsible for constructing tunnels that are used by militants in the Gaza Strip to carry out attacks from the coastal enclave into Israel.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
