Palestinian armed groups vowed to respond to Israel’s attack on a tunnel in a southern town in the Gaza Strip late on Monday that left at least seven people dead and nine others wounded.
“We will exercise our right to respond – this is our duty,” Daoud Shehab, a leader in the Islamic Jihad movement, told Al Jazeera, adding that it is the legitimate right of the resistance groups to respond.
Palestinian media said that the tunnel in Khan Younis had been hit by the Israeli air force.
“Reports said Israel fired five missiles at the tunnel that was being dug east of Khan Younis and which Israel claims was leading to its territory,” Palestinian news agency Wafa said.
The ministry of health in Gaza officially identified five of those killed as members of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad and two others as members of Hamas’ Izz Eddine al-Qassam Brigades.
Hamas decried the attack as the “latest Zionist crime”.
Since 2008, Israel has launched three offensives on the Gaza Strip.
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