(3 Nov 2013) Hundreds of people participated in the funeral of a Palestinian militant from the Qassam Brigades on Sunday.
Khaled Abu Bakra, 37, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday.
Mourners carried the body through the streets of Khan Younis, chanting slogans against Israel. Shots were fired in the air.
Israeli aircraft targeted what the military described as a "terror tunnel" used by the Quassam Brigades, and other Hamas-allied military groups in Gaza.
Abu Bakra's body was found on Saturday following hours of searching through the tunnel.
Israel said it took the action after five of its soldiers were wounded by a bomb as they tried to demolish another tunnel used by Hamas.
That incident drew Israeli fire that killed one militant. The Quassan Brigades said another three of their fighters were killed in Friday's strike.
The latest violence was the deadliest along the volatile boundary since an eight-day Israeli military campaign last November aimed at stopping attacks from Gaza, a coastal strip that borders both Israel and Egypt.
Hamas has dug tunnels into Israel in the past.
In 2006, Hamas-allied militants sneaked into Israel through one such tunnel, killed two Israeli soldiers and kidnapped a third, holding him hostage in Gaza for five years.
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