Red Cross in Gaza closes office due to violent protests

Israeli sources familiar with the situation told Elaph that Israel has updated Egypt on the movements of the Islamic State affiliate in Sinai and provided Egypt with information on the group’s relations with Hamas.

Eshtawi’s duties included overseeing tunnels that have previously been used to store weapons and carry out attacks against Israel, sources said.

 Human Rights Watch condemned the execution, with its Israel and Palestine director Sari Bashi calling it “another extra-judicial killing by forces linked to Hamas”. Israelis living near the border have reported hearing tunneling sounds under their homes recently.

A young Palestinian man has died after a lifeline tunnel he was trying to restore collapsed near the besieged Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt.

Share with Us – We’d love to hear eyewitness accounts, the history behind an article, and smart, constructive criticism. “We have dozens, if not a hundred, engineering vehicles on the Gaza border”.

A Palestinian fighter from the armed wing of Hamas gestures inside an underground tunnel in Gaza, Aug. 18, 2014.

“The United Nations supports all efforts undertaken to advance genuine Palestinian reconciliation on the basis of non-violence, democracy and PLO principles”, Mladenov said in a statement.

The Palestinians said they dug tunnels to get their basic needs of fuels, foods and medicines.

The document also came amid Palestinian and Israeli reports of as many as three tunnels collapsing in the Gaza Strip in recent days.

Since Hamas took over Gaza in a coup against the Fatah faction in 2007, Israel and Egypt have imposed a blockade on the Strip’s 1.8m inhabitants.

What’s more, he went on, in the event of rapprochement between Turkey and Israel, the Gaza Strip’s humanitarian situation would likely improve.

He said to Anadolu Agency that it is “unacceptable for Israel to launch a war against what Hamas named by the battle of preparation”.

Hamas often refers to incidents involving deaths of its militants as “resistance operations” without clarifying the circumstances of their deaths.