Three Hamas members killed in Gaza blasts

Gaza - Three Palestinian fighters have been killed after a series of explosions near the southern
Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, witnesses and
officials said.

It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts
on Wednesday, but officials swiftly ruled out the
possibility of an Israeli airstrike.

Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesperson for Gaza's Health
Ministry, said a blast at a training site for a
Palestinian resistance group killed three people and
wounded five.

But witnesses said the explosions
occurred in a house, not at a training site.

Shehab, a Gaza-based news agency and a
mouthpiece for the ruling faction Hamas, said the
dead were members of the Hamas armed wing, Izz
al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

Among the wounded were firefighters who rushed
to the scene after the first blast.

Police imposed a security cordon around the blast
site, while Eyad Al-Bozom, an Interior Ministry
spokesperson, said in a statement that an
investigation was underway into the circumstances
of the explosions.