Unexplained explosion kills six Hamas members in Gaza

Six people were killed in an unexplained explosion in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday, health officials said, with Hamas’s military wing saying they were members of its forces.

Gaza’s health ministry confirmed six people were killed, updating the figure from an initial five, and three others wounded in what residents said appeared to be an accidental explosion in the Az-Zawayda area of the central Gaza Strip.

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Gaza’s Islamist rulers, said the fatalities were members of their group and blamed Israel for the explosion without providing details or proof.

 

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