Two resistance fighters were killed on Wednesday evening after a tunnel linking the besieged Gaza Strip to Egypt collapsed.
A statement by al-Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas Movement identified the two men as Ismail Abdul Karim Shamali 24 and Rami Mounir al-Are’er 27.
Another fighter sustained injuries in the tunnel collapse which occurred in al-Shuja’iya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.
Spokesperson for the Palestinian Health Ministry Ashraf al-Qudra confirmed the piece of news.
Dozens of Palestinian resistance fighters and workers were killed in similar tunnel collapses due to flooding carried out by the Egyptian military.
Egypt’s flooding of the border with seawater makes part of underway attempts to strengthen Israel’s siege on Gaza by destroying the tunnels which have long been used to transport people and much-needed goods in and out of the enclave of two million inhabitants.
An Israeli blockade severely restricts the movement of people and goods into and out of the territory and Egypt’s sole border with Gaza—Rafah crossing— has remained largely closed since the toppling of the democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
