- Illustrative: smoke rises after an explosion at a smuggling tunnel
Citing Israeli defense officials, the Arabic Al-Jazeera news service reported Thursday that the Egyptian military was behind an explosion near the Gaza-Egyptian border overnight that killed two Palestinians and injured five others.
After the blast, Hamas, the terror group that controls the Gaza Strip, immediately pinned the blame on an Israeli airstrike, but the Israel Defense Forces denied involvement. The spokesman of Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, Ashraf al-Qudra, named the two men killed as Hossam al-Sufi, 24, and Mohammed al-Aqra, 38.
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