Gaza militants clash with Israeli troops kills 4

Gaza City: Four Gaza activists were killed overnight in a firefight with Israeli troops sent to decimate Hamas tunnels, authorities on both sides said on Friday. The neighborhood administrators
of Hamas' military wing were executed by tank fire, Palestinian authorities said, while the Israeli armed force said five of its officers were wounded by an unstable apparatus. Palestinian authorities said Rabieh Barikeh was executed in a split second in the firefight late Thursday night and Khaled Abu Bakr kicked the bucket of his wounds throughout the night. The figures of Mohammed al-Qassas and Mohammed Daoud were identified later. They said all were neighborhood leaders of Hamas' Ezzedine al-Qassam military wing. The Israeli military said the battling emitted when a dangerous gadget went off as troops were clearing a tunnel from the Gaza Strip into Israel, purportedly to be utilized as a springboard for activist ambushes. Throughout the operation, Hamas focused on the Israeli fighters with a hazardous gadget, wounding five of them, it said in an articulation. Accordingly, "the warriors started shooting and straight hit a terrorist" and Israeli warplanes struck "an extra fear tunnel found in the southern Gaza Strip," it said. No Palestinian losses were accounted for in that strike. Throughout the trade, Hamas Tv said, three mortar shells were shot from Gaza into southern Israel. The Israeli guard reported stand out, which it said fell in an open field, making no harm or harm. The military said the starting target was a segment of tunnel into Israel uncovered a month ago. "This mission was basic because of the possibility to utilise the fear tunnel for future strike against Israeli regular people," the comment cited representative Peter Lerner as saying. Ezzedine al-Qassam said on October 20 that it dug the tunnel as a feature of an arrangement to abduct Israeli troopers and hold them in return for Palestinians held in Israeli jails. "We are finishing up the ground and under the ground to discharge the detainees" held by Israel, the gathering's agent Abu Obeida said around then.