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11 August 2011
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At approximately 1:30 am on Thursday 11 August 2011, N.
A.
H.
, 17, died when an explosive device exploded.
He was walking in a narrow ally in Block N in Yebna refugee camp in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
According to Al Mezan's field investigations, the boy was walking alone, holding the device in his hands.
The boy's face was burnt and his lower limbs were dismembered.
Later, Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced the accidental death of one of its members in an internal explosion incident.
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