GAZA: Israeli tanks on Tuesday afternoon rolled into an area east of the Jabaliya refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip, where they leveled vast agricultural land, witnesses and local media sources said. The sources said that four tanks accompanied with two bulldozers crossed the border between Gaza and Israel, tens of meters in the outskirts of Jabaliya town and started to raze agricultural plots.
Two Palestinian militant groups claimed they clashed with the invading Israeli tanks to stop them. Al-Quds brigades the military wing of Islamic Jihad said in a statement send to the media that their fighters targeted the tanks by firing a rocket-propelled grenade, while Abu Ali Mustafa brigades said that their fighters sniped an Israeli soldier during the confrontation.
No one reportedly injured in the clashes.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian man was killed and another one injured early Tuesday in a new tunnel collapse incident in southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, witnesses and medical sources said.
Medical sources in Gaza said that Jamal Abu Samak, 32, was suffocated to death inside the tunnel that collapsed beneath the border with Egypt. A second worker was seriously injured. They added that five others are still missing.
