Hamas on Wednesday buries two fighters killed in a tunnel collapse, as concern grows in Israel over the rebuilding of underground passageways that could be used for attacks.
Hundreds of men, many armed and wearing balaclavas, take part in the funeral.
Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s leader in Gaza, calls the two men “martyrs” and praises “those who work silently underground for us to live in dignity on earth.”
The collapse was the second such incident since last week. A tunnel collapse caused by bad weather on January 26 killed seven terrorists.
Israeli concerns increased on Friday after Haniyeh, in comments at the seven men’s funeral, highlighted the growth of new tunnels.
— AFP, Times of Israel staff
Palestinian members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement during the funeral of fellow militant Ahmed al-Zahar in the village of Al-Moghraga near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on February 3, 2016. (AFP / MAHMUD HAMS)
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