Two Palestinian police officers were killed by an explosion at a checkpoint in the Gaza Strip

Two Palestinian policemen they died Tuesday for an explosion next to a police checkpoint in the southern Gaza Strip, while three other people were injured in the capital by a similar epidemic, to which the Islamist movement Hamas proclaimed "the state of alert".

Police sources in Hamas announced the death of two 32-year-old Palestinians as a result of the explosion they experienced when they traveled under police-controlled motorcycle control of the Islamist movement in the southern region that has been governing since 2007. .

In addition, three people were injured (including one woman) in another blast in a police station in Gaza City, which were taken to a nearby hospital, according to Ashraf al Qedra, spokesman for the Health Ministry of the Gaza Strip.

In this context, Eyad al-Bozzom, spokesman for the Hamas Ministry of the Interior, said that "security forces have declared vigilance and urgently, following security events after two explosions that reached two checkpoints in Gaza. "

The Islamist movement confirmed in a statement that the dead were members of the police and that the security forces were investigating the circumstances of the explosion.

At first, the Ministry of Health reported an Israeli impact, but the army of this country said that he had not made any attack in the Palestinian enclave.

Explosions occur in the middle of an increase in tension, with less than two weeks of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, and an increase in infiltrations that have not been claimed by armed militia in Gaza and that suggest individual actions.

For his part, the United Nations Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, has been pessimistic about the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and warned against "growing specter of violence" which, according to the newspaper. it threatens a regional escalation.

In an address to the Security Council, Mladenov stressed that the peace process is in a "total stalemate" and without "any prospect of being relaunched".

Beyond the "lack of political horizons" to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the UN envoy also warned against unilateral on-the-ground initiatives and terrorist attacks.