GAZA CITY: A Palestinian from the Hamas militant group died Wednesday after what was believed to be the collapse of an attack tunnel in Gaza, a statement said.
Mahmud Al-Safadi, 31, died “during his work in one of the resistance tunnels,” a statement from Hamas’s armed wing said, using a phrase commonly used by the group to refer to tunnels used for attacks against Israel.
The statement did not provide further details of the incident or the location but Arabic media reported a partial collapse of a tunnel.
Dozens of Palestinian militants have died in tunnel incidents in recent years, the majority in seeming accidents.
In October Israel blew up a tunnel stretching under the border, killing 12 militants.
Hamas’s tunnels were a key weapon for the militant group in the last war with Israel in 2014.
Earlier this month Israel revealed details of a massive underground barrier being built along the border with the Gaza Strip in a bid to neutralize the threat of attack tunnels.
Hamas militant dies in attack tunnel
Hamas militant dies in attack tunnel
Trump offers to mediate Egypt-Ethiopia dispute on Nile River waters
- Egypt says the dam violates international treaties and could cause both droughts and flooding, a claim Ethiopia rejects
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump offered on Friday to mediate a dispute over Nile River waters between Egypt and Ethiopia. “I am ready to restart US mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia to responsibly resolve the question of ‘The Nile Water Sharing’ once and for all,” he wrote to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in a letter that also was posted on Trump’s Truth Social account.
Addis Ababa’s September 9 inauguration of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a source of anger in Cairo, which is downstream on the Nile.
Ethiopia, the continent’s second-most populous nation with more than 120 million people, sees the $5 billion dam on a tributary of the Nile as central to its economic ambitions.
Egypt says the dam violates international treaties and could cause both droughts and flooding, a claim Ethiopia rejects.
Trump has praised El-Sisi in the past, including during an October trip to Egypt to sign a deal related to the Gaza conflict. In public comments, Trump has echoed Cairo’s concerns about the water issue.
