Mystery Explosion in Gaza Apartment Kills Two Palestinians

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AP/ Khalil Hamra

The Times of Israel reports: At least two Palestinians were killed and five injured on Saturday evening in an explosion in an apartment in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.

The cause of the blast was not immediately known, but there were suggestions it was the result of mishandling of explosives.

Hadashot TV news reported that the family in whose home the explosion occurred is affiliated with Fatah, Hamas’s Palestinian rival, which was violently overthrown by the terror group now ruling Gaza in 2007.

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