Blast from Gaza war ordnance kills four

Meanwhile, a Palestinian driver rammed his vehicle into pedestrians in the West Bank on Thursday, injuring three Israelis.

A relative of Palestinians, who were killed an explosion, mourns at a hospital morgue in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 6, 2015.

Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, said participants spent two weeks being “trained in military techniques and in firing live ammunition” as well as “first aid and rescue techniques”.

At least four people were killed and 30 others injured when unexploded ordnance from last summer’s Israeli military offensive went off while clearing rubble from a destroyed house in the southern Gaza Strip.

The car-ramming comes days after a firebomb attack on an Israeli couple’s vehicle, as well as an arson attack on a Palestinian home by suspected Jewish extremists in which an 18-month-old toddler was killed.

Sunday’s championship was to be a follow-up of a match on Thursday between Al-Ahly, the top team in the West Bank and Gaza’s champion Shejaia.

A report last week by Amnesty global examining the incident, one of the gravest that took place during the conflict, said Israel deliberately bombed residential areas for four days – continuing even after the soldier, Lt. Hadar Goldin, was officially declared dead – and said Israeli actions in the incident could amount to war crimes.

More than 1,000 security men from the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza kept order.

All the victims belonged to the same family.

Rabie Abu Nqira, an eyewitness, said he was helping a crew remove rubble from the home using a bulldozer and another earth mover.

Neighbours said the blast might have been caused by cooking gas cylinders that burst in the summer heat.