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<h1 class="title">Bodies of 5 Palestinian fighters found in Gaza
tunnel, bringing death toll to 12</h1>
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<div class="PhotoCaption">A poster of the five Islamic Jihad
fighters whose bodies were found on Friday<br>
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the
Islamic Jihad movement, released a statement on Friday declaring
that five missing fighters belonging to the group in Gaza were dead.
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<div>The five fighters had gone missing inside tunnels between
southern Gaza and Israeli territory, after Israeli forces
conducted explosions on the tunnels. <br>
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<div>After the first explosion, which buried the five Islamic Jihad
fighters, several other fighters from the Islamic Jihad and Hamas
movements entered the tunnels on a rescue mission. A second
explosion then <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779414"
target="_blank">killed seven of the rescue fighters, and injured
at least twelve more. </a><br>
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<div>In the statement on Friday, the Islamic Jihad movement said
they had recovered the bodies, and identified the five slain
fighters who had been missing since the first explosion as Badr
Kamal Musbeh, Ahmad Hasan al-Sabakhi, Shadi Sami al-Hemri,
Muhammad Kheir al-Din al-Buheisi and Alaa Sami Abu Ghrab. </div>
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<div class="PhotoCaption">A poster of all 12 Hamas and Islamic
Jihad fighters that were killed as a result of the explosion<br>
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<div><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Izz al-Din al-Qassam
Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, released a
statement following the attack, saying that “the blood of the
martyrs would not be wasted, and that the Israeli occupation
bears responsibility for the consequences of this aggressive
escalation.”<br>
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<div>Israeli officials have accused Hamas of "preparing" for another
war with Israel and have threatened retaliatory measures against
the Gaza Strip as a whole. However, despite Hamas' inflammatory
rhetoric against Israel, the movement has not officially claimed
responsibility for any military action from Gaza against Israel
since the 2014 war.<br>
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<div>While the tunnels in Gaza are used by Hamas as a source of tax
revenue and inflow of weapons, they also supply highly demanded
necessities for Gazans -- who have been trapped under Israeli
siege for a decade -- including food, medicine, and much-needed
infrastructure materials.<br>
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<div>The majority of the two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
are sealed inside the coastal enclave due to the continuation of
the military blockade imposed by Israel and upheld by Egypt on the
southern border.<br>
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The destruction from three Israeli offensives since 2008, including
damage to the enclave’s water, sanitation, energy, and medical
facilities, coupled with slow reconstruction due to the blockade,
led the UN to warn that Gaza could be “uninhabitable” by 2020.
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