Israeli air strike on border leaves 3 Gaza children dead
27-YEAR-OLD ALSO SHOT DEAD, BRINGING TO 217 NUMBER OF PALESTINIANS KILLED SINCE MARCH
Three Palestinian boys were killed in an Israeli regime air strike on the Gaza Strip frontier on Sunday, medical officials in the enclave said.
The Gaza Health Ministry said two of the dead were aged 13 and one was 14.
The mother of one of the boys denied that her son had any links to armed groups. Aisha Abu Daher said her 14-year-old son Abdul Hamid had “nothing to do with resistance”.
Palestinian paramedics say the three bodies were found 200 metres from the fence.
Israeli forces also shot dead a 27-year-old Palestinian man and wounded 25 including two medics yesterday during Palestinian protests along the Gaza Strip’s beachfront border with Israel, the Gaza Health Ministry said.
More than 217 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces at the frontier during almost seven months of Palestinian protests against Israel’s blockade of the territory and in support of a right for Palestinian refugees to return to lands in Israel. One Israeli occupation soldier has been killed by a sniper.
Mediation
The regime in Tel Aviv has warned of war, while Egypt and the United Nations have repeatedly mediated truces. In Sunday’s incident, an Israeli aircraft struck “three terrorists adjacent to the fence” the Israeli regime said in a statement.
Four Palestinians were killed at the border on Friday, and a Gaza armed group responded by firing a volley of missiles into Israel, prompting scores of Israeli retaliatory air strikes on Saturday, although nobody was killed.
Two million Palestinians live in Gaza, most of them stateless descendants of people who fled or were driven from homes in Israel at its founding in 1948.