Two Palestinian policemen died Tuesday in an explosion next to a police checkpoint in the south of the Strip, and three others were injured in the capital of Gaza, in a similar deflagration, to which the Islamist movement, Hamas, has declared the "alert status".

Hamas police sources reported the death of two 32-year-old Palestinians from an explosion that struck them when they were traveling by motorcycle together with a police control of the Islamist movement, which de facto controls the enclave since 2007.

Three other people were injured, including a woman, in another deflagration next to a police post in Gaza City, who were transferred to Shifa hospital in the capital Gaza, said the spokesman for the Ministry of Health of the enclave, Ashraf al Qedra.

"The security forces declared a state of alert and emergency following security events after two explosions that have reached two checkpoints in Gaza," said Hamas Ministry of Interior spokesman Eyad al Bozzom.

The Islamist movement confirmed in a statement that the deceased were members of the Police and said that the security forces are investigating the circumstances of the explosion.

At first, the Ministry of Health reported an Israeli impact, but the Israeli Army said it had not carried out any attacks in the Palestinian enclave.

The explosions occur in the midst of an increase in tension with five days of rocket launches from the enclave to Israel in less than two weeks and an increase in infiltrations, which have not been claimed by Gaza's armed militias, and which point to individual actions.

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