GAZA, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- An Islamic Hamas movement militant was killed on Thursday after a tunnel collapsed in eastern Gaza city, the group and medical sources said.
Medical sources said that Khalil Demyati, 27, from Gaza was brought dead to a hospital in Gaza city, without elaboration.
Hamas armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, said to reporters that the group mourns its member Demyati, who died during a military mission into one of the tunnels of resistance.
Hamas movement, which has been ruling the Gaza Strip since 2007, uses tunnels underneath Gaza as a strategic weapon either to store arms, to hide during wars waged on Gaza or to carry out attacks using the tunnels into Israel.
Over the past three years, more than 20 militants died in the same circumstances, according to Gaza rights groups.
