Gaza’s Hamas rulers says 2 fighters dead in tunnel collapse

She was killed last week in a Palestinian stabbing attack in Beit Horon, where she was on her way to a visit with her grandparents.

Struck in an Israeli air raid in the 2014 Gaza war, Mohammed’s home was only recently rebuilt but he remains undaunted by the prospect of another showdown with the Jewish state.

The memorial service for seven Hamas fighters killed by a tunnel collapse about a week ago featured a piece of military hardware shown off by the movement’s military wing Izz ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades.

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israel’s parliament passed a law on Tuesday expanding police powers, allowing them to stop and frisk suspects without probable cause, the latest attempt to crack down on near-daily Palestinian attacks on Israelis. Such tunnels have frequently been used by Hamas to launch attacks on Israelis. Other Israeli security forces in the scene killed the three assailants and subsequently shot.

Israel restricted access Monday into and out of the Palestinian political capital of Ramallah on the occupied West Bank after a checkpoint shooting that wounded soldiers, stepping up its response to attacks.

The attackers, from the West Bank town of Jenin, were aged 20, 20 and 21, Rosenfeld said.

Human rights groups say the long campaign to relocate the Palestinians residing in the region is totally illegal due to the fact that Israel can not establish a military zone on an occupied territory.

But, our correspondent adds, it does seem as though the incidents are spontaneous, with attackers drawing motivation from material on social media rather than following orders from any militant organisation.

Israeli police reported that a 16-year-old Palestinian from an East Jerusalem neighborhood later turned himself in claiming responsibility for the attack. Israeli officials said the structures were illegal.

Some analysts say Hamas would prefer to rebuild rather than face another war. More than 300,000 Palestinians live in those areas. “This is an escalation from what we’ve seen thus far”.

Hamas was said to have arrested around 100 of them previous year.

As for a meeting between Netanyahu and Abbas, 69.8% support and 26.8% oppose, though only 30.9% of Israelis believed Abbas’ comment in a briefing to Israeli press that he made it clear that he wants to meet with Netanyahu, and never received an answer. “Now we have rockets”.

The Gaza Strip continues to reel under a crippling blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt after Hamas seized control of the coastal enclave in 2007 after sweeping Palestinian legislative polls one year earlier.