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Hamas Terrorist Killed in Tunnel Collapse During ‘Mission’
 [JEWISHPRESS] A member of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", military wing, was killed in Gazoo on Monday after an underground tunnel collapsed on him, Ma’an reported. The al-Qassam Brigades released a statement saying one of their fighters, Amir Jaber Abu Tuima from the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gazoo Strip, died during a "mission" when the tunnel collapsed.The announcement did not specify the nature of the mission, which was most likely digging a terror tunnel. On Saturday another al-Qassam terrorist was killed in a tunnel collapse. Ma’an acknowledged that a considerable number of Gazoo Arabs have been killed in the "vast tunnel networks that lie below the besieged enclave," which is dedicated to commercial and military smuggling in the south and future terrorist kidnapping in the north. Last Saturday morning, the head of the Egyptian army’s Ninth Armored Division was assassinated for his role in destroying tunnels between Egypt and the Gazoo Strip by filling them with water. The smuggling tunnels are used by Hamas as a source of tax revenue and flow of weapons and commercial goods from the Sinai, including food, medicine, and infrastructure materials. The latter are being used mostly for digging military tunnels into Israeli territory. The Institute for Paleostine Studies reported in 2012 that Hamas suffered 160 deaths under collapsing tunnels since 2007. In August 2014, al-Jazeera cited 400 as the updated figure for tunnel collapse casualties. Rocket fire at Sha'ar Hanegev, IDF retaliates [Ynet] Following the sounding of a Code Red siren early Monday morning in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, the IDF retaliated against Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", targets in the northern Gazoo Strip; Rocket apparently landed in Hamas territory. This is the fourth rocket to fall in Sderot and the 42nd to be fired since the end of Operation Protective Edge two years ago. In most cases, rogue elements within in the Gazoo Strip, some of whom identify with ISIS, were responsible for the rocket fire. This is in contradiction to Hamas, which largely attempts to maintain quiet in order to prepare for the next confrontation against the IDF. Posted by: Fred 2016-10-25 |
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