seven dead as israel blows up tunnel from gaza
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Seven dead as Israel blows up tunnel from Gaza

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Seven Palestinians were killed Monday as Israel blew up what it said was a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into its territory, a rare case of such an incident since a devastating 2014 war.

Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for the Hamas-led Gazan health ministry, confirmed seven men had been killed, with a further 12 injured.

Two came from Hamas' armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, while the other five were from the Hamas-allied militant group Islamic Jihad, the two groups confirmed.

Their deaths were announced after Israel "neutralised a terror tunnel leading into southern Israel," military spokesman Jonathan Conricus told journalists.

"The tunnel was detonated from within Israel, close to the security fence."

Tunnels dug by Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas were a key issue in the last war with Israel in 2014, but discoveries of those stretching into the Jewish state have since been rare.

Hamas called Monday's incident "a dangerous escalation against our people".

It did not pledge a specific response but said "resisting the occupation... is a natural and guaranteed right for our people".

Islamic Jihad said in a statement that the tunnels were "part of the policy of deterrence to defend the Palestinian people".

Conricus said the Israeli military was not seeking further escalation.

He said the tunnel was targeted around two kilometres (less than two miles) from the Israeli village of Kissufim, but added that no Israelis had been in danger.

- 'Breakthrough technology' -

It was still being dug and no opening was found in Israeli territory, he said. The military had been monitoring it for "some time", Conricus said, declining to say when it was first discovered.

In April 2016, Israel's military said it had located and destroyed a tunnel extending from the Gaza Strip into Israel in the first such discovery since the 2014 conflict.

Hamas forces have used tunnels in the past to enter Israel and carry out attacks.

"We are developing breakthrough technology to deal with the tunnel threat," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

"We are implementing it. Today we located a tunnel and destroyed it. Whoever seeks to harm us will be hit."

Conricus also said Israel used advanced technology to locate the tunnel but declined to elaborate.

- Palestinian reconciliation -

Monday's operation came as Palestinian rival factions Hamas and Fatah seek to follow through on a reconciliation deal signed earlier this month aimed at ending a decade-long rift between them.

Hamas is due to hand control of the Gaza Strip back to the Palestinian Authority by December 1 under the agreement.

Besides calling it an escalation, Hamas said the Israeli operation was "a desperate attempt which aims to undermine efforts to rebuild Palestinian unity".

The Islamist movement seized the enclave in a near civil war with Fatah, based in the occupied West Bank, in 2007.

Israel has warned that it will not accept a unity government that includes Hamas if the Islamist movement does not disarm and recognise the country, among other demands.

Israel launched its 2014 operation in Gaza with the stated objectives of halting rocket fire and destroying attack tunnels into Israel.

During the war, 32 tunnels were discovered, including 14 that extended into Israel, according to a UN report on the conflict.

It was the third war in Gaza since 2008 and the longest, deadliest and most destructive.

It killed 2,251 Palestinians, while more than 10,000 were wounded and 100,000 were left homeless.

On the Israeli side, 74 people were killed, all but six of them soldiers.

Israeli leaders have been keen to show they are addressing the threat of tunnels from the Gaza Strip.

A state inquiry in February accused Netanyahu and top army brass of being unprepared for the tunnels used by Hamas during the 2014 conflict.

source: AFP

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