Malfunction made missile hit Gaza children: Israel army
Local officials, at least eight Palestinians, most children were killed, and more than a dozen injured in the center of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army said it aims to hit an Islamic jihad militant in the region, but a fault caused the missile to fall “dozens of meters from the target”.
“IDF regrets any damage to unprocessed civilians,” he said in a statement.
The strike hit a water distribution point in the refugee camp, killed six children and wounded 17 people in the refugee camp.
Water scarcity in the Gaza Strip has shown sharply worsening in recent weeks, causing fuel shortage of salt purification and sanitation facilities to close, which has made people dependent on the collection centers where they could fill plastic containers.
In another attack, the Palestinian media reported that a well -known hospital consultant was among the 12 people killed in a busy market in Gaza in the middle of the morning.
Gaza Health Ministry said on Sunday, said that more than 58,000 people have been killed in October 2023 since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, and 139 people have participated in death in the last 24 hours.
The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and fighters, but more than half of those killed are women and children.
Palestinian and Israeli sources at the weekend, negotiations aimed at providing a ceasefire are locked.
Indirect negotiations about the US suggestion for a 60 -day ceasefire continued in Qatar, but the optimism of a possible agreement last week faded to a great extent, and both sides accused each other’s dispute.
The war began on October 7, 2023 when the militants led by Hamas attacked Israel, killed about 1200 people and took 251 hostages to the Gaza Strip.
At least 20 of the remaining 50 hostages are still alive.
Israel’s campaign against Hamas has displaced the entire population of more than two million people, but says that it is not safe anywhere in the coastal coastal settlement.
Early on Sunday morning, a missile hit a house where a family in Gaza was receiving a evacuation order from their homes on the southern skirts of a family.
“My aunt, her husband and children went. What is the mistake of children who died in a dawn in an ugly bloody massacre?” Anas Matar said, standing in the rubble of the building.
“They came here and they were shot. There is no safe place in Gaza,” he said.
