An Israeli air strike killed at least three members of a Palestinian mortar crew on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas movement said. The attack in the Hamas-controlled territory followed the firing of more than a dozen mortar bombs at southern Israel.
According to Reuters, an official in Hamas' armed wing said three members of a mortar crew were killed and two others wounded.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian man was killed late Monday night when an underground tunnel collapsed on him in the city of Rafah. Medical sources identified the victim as 20-year old Fadi Khalifa. Earlier on Monday, 27-year-old Majdi Khdair was killed in a similar tunnel collapse in the Salam neighborhood of located in Rafah city.
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