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Children fetching water killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, emergency officials say

Emergency service officials say that ten people, including six children, were killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting for water containers in central Gaza on Sunday.

Their bodies were sent to the Al -Wouda Hospital in Nawwi, who also treated 16 people, including seven children, a doctor said there.

Witnesses said a The drones fired a line in a queue in a queue with empty Jerry boxes, along with the water tanks in the refugee camp in the Nuwairat.

The Israeli army said that there was a “technical error” with a strike targeting an “terrorist” Islamic jihad that caused the ammunition to decrease tens of meters away from the target. The army added that the accident was under review.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it was aware of “the claim related to losses in the region as a result,” adding that it is working to reduce civil harm “as much as possible” and “destroys any harm to non -street civilians.”

Unreveled footage on the Internet after the strike showed a blood -stained children and bodies without life, with screaming and despair.

The residents rushed to the scene and transported the wounded using private vehicles and donkeys.

The strike came as the Israeli air attacks escalated through the Gaza Strip.

A spokesman for the Civil Defense Agency in Gaza said that 19 other Palestinians were killed on Sunday, in three separate strikes in residential buildings in central Gaza and Gaza City.

Separately, the ICRC (ICRC) said it has dealt with more collective injuries at the Rafah Field Hospital in southern Gaza in the past six weeks more than that.

He said that her field hospital in Rafah had received 132 patients “suffering from weapons -related injuries” on Saturday, 31 of them died.

He added that the “vast majority” of patients were wounded, and “all the respondents” reported that they were trying to reach food distribution sites.

He said that the hospital had treated more than 3,400 patients with weapons and recorded more than 250 deaths since the opening of the new food distribution sites on May 27 – bypassing “all cases of mass injuries treated in the hospital” in the previous year.

The ICRC said: “The worrying frequency and the size of these collective victims confirm the horrific conditions that civilians in Gaza bear.”

On Saturday, Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza 24 people who were killed near the aid distribution site saidThe witnesses said that the Israeli forces opened fire while people were trying to reach food.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that there were no “well -known injured individuals” from the Israeli Defense Army fire near the site. Separately, an Israeli military official said that the warning shots had been launched to disperse the people of the Israeli Defense Army to represent a threat.

The United Nations Human Rights Office said on Friday that it has so far recorded 789 assistance killings.

He said among them, 615 who were in the vicinity of the positions of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the United States and Israel, which were opened on May 27 and managed by American security contractors in the military areas in the south and central Gaza.

183 other killings were recorded near the United Nations and other aid caravans.

The Israeli army said it had confessed that there were incidents in which civilians were harmed and that it was working to reduce “potential friction between the population and the population [Israeli] The forces as possible. “

GHF accused the United Nations using “false and misleading” statistics from the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza.

GHF Johnnie Moore I previously told BBC He did not deny deaths near relief sites, but he said, “100 % of these victims are attributed to the closure of his proximity to GHF” and that was “incorrect.”

Israel does not allow international news organizations, including BBC, in Gaza.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas attack across the border on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken into account.

At least 57,882 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.

Most of the people of Gaza were displaced several times.

More than 90 % of homes are estimated at damage or destruction. Health, water, sewage, hygiene and hygiene systems collapsed, and there is a lack of food, fuel, medicine and shelter.

This week, for the first time in 130 days, 75,000 liters of fuel were allowed to Gaza – “away from meeting the daily needs of the population and vital civil aid operations,” the United Nations said.

On Saturday, nine United Nations agencies warned that the lack of fuel in Gaza had reached “critical levels”, and if the fuel runs out, this will affect hospitals, water systems, sewage networks and bakeries.

The United Nations said: “Hospitals remain already dark, and the failure of the intensive care units in birth, and ambulances could no longer move.”

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2025-07-13 12:17:00

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