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The bunker was east of Gaza City.
Security sources said that the huge explosion was in a tunnel belonging to the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement.
The sources said that a large number of fighters from the al-Qassam Brigades were inside the tunnel, and that the number of victims "may be great." Twitter and Facebook rumors said 5 were killed.
Initial reports are that the explosion was caused by a "technical malfunction."
There have been, by my count, at least 22 Arabs killed this year by terrorist organizations in the territories. There is no official count because "human rights" groups don't consider Arabs killed by other Arabs to be worth following.
UPDATE: Five Hamas members confirmed killed. An additional person was killed while trying to dig the bodies out .That makes a death toll of at least 28 from internal terrorist-sourced actions this year.
In other news:
Two Palestinian Arabs were killed in a family feud in the Shuafat camp.
A university student from Gaza was found murdered in Egypt, handcuffed and stabbed twice using a kitchen knife.
Three more Palestinian Arabs were killed in Syria.
And in a horrific story, a four month old girl was mauled to death by a wild dog near Ramallah. So far I have not seen anyone claim that the dog was purposefully released by Jewish settlers, but in the past no less than Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of purposefully releasing wild dogs to attack Palestinians.