About two-thirds of them are said by Israel to be attackers, while the others were killed in clashes with troops.
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After investing significant resources in the construction of attack tunnels that extend from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas has successfully rebuilt an underground network that may rival the one Israel discovered and destroyed in 2014, a prominent Israeli defense analyst has said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said a 31-year-old man, identified as Musa Abu Zuaiter, was killed in the attack.
Israeli farmers in the area reportedly were told by the IDF to avoid the Gaza border fence area following the strike because of possible retaliatory gunfire.
A relative of Palestinian militant Mussa Zeater, who was killed in an attack by an Israeli aircraft, mourns during his funeral in the northern Gaza Strip January 13, 2016.
In response, the Gaza Hamas government warned against Israel’s “continued aggression against our people in Gaza”.
Al-Saqqa said Israel allowed the export of strawberries from Gaza to the West Bank through Kerem Shalom commercial terminal on the border between southern Gaza Strip and Israel.
Under Palestinian law, those convicted of collaboration with Israel, murder and drug trafficking face the death penalty.
Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have vocally supported the individual attacks recently carried out inside of Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank, but have yet to partake in what Hamas has termed an intifada.
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The man shot dead near Hebron on Thursday brought the number of Palestinians killed since October 1 to at least 144. Sometimes Gazans are accused of being collaborators based on mere rumor and at other times those who fall out of favor with Hamas are deemed collaborators and executed. Injured in the civil war, Ali was sentenced to death and was held in Al-Jafr desert prison before he escaped to Syria.
