An Israeli air strike hit Palestinians near a medical centre in Gaza yesterday, killing 10 children and six adults, local health authorities said.
Verified video footage from the strike in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip showed the bodies of women and children lying in pools of blood amid dust and screaming. One clip showed several motionless children lying on a donkey cart. Israel’s military said it had struck a militant and that the incident was under review.
US-based Project HOPE said the strike had hit right outside its Altayara health clinic. “Horrified and heartbroken cannot properly communicate how we feel anymore,” the aid group said in a statement.
Palestinian mother Samah al-Nouri, whose daughter Sama was killed in an Israeli strike yesterday near a medical centre in Deir Al-Balah, comforts her son, as casualties from the strike are brought into Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, yesterday.
