Six children have been assassinated by an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers at a water-tank in central Gaza on Sunday. The strike killed 10 people and injured at least 16 including women and old men.
Israeli Soldiers assassinate 6 children at a water-tanker – burning them alive
Their scorched bodies were sent to Nuseirat’s al-Awda Hospital, which was also treating the 16 injured people which also included seven children.
A local was heard shouting, ‘Children should not have to watch other children burn alive’. On social media the outrage continues as Brits are devastated in reading the horrors of such an atrocity. People are expressing their outrage at this massacre, ‘Is IDF incompetent or war-criminals?’
Israeli air force struck 150 times across Gaza in the past 24 hours, it said, adding that there was also a land attack carried out in Beit Hanoon in northern Gaza including attacks that are ongoing on Khan Younis in the south.
A IDF drone hovered above for 15 minutes before taking aim
Eyewitnesses said a drone hovered above for 15 minutes and then fired a missile at a crowd, made up of 20 children who were queuing with empty jerry cans next to a water tanker in al-Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Israeli military said there had been a “technical error” with a strike that caused the munition to fall hundred meters from the target. The incident is under review, the military added. But according to military experts drones, which hover over targets have usually had plenty of time to lock in on the target zones and do not miss by such a big distance.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) provided a callous response and regrets the deaths of the children and said it was aware of the “claim regarding casualties in the area as a result of the air strike”, adding that it works to mitigate civilian harm “as much as possible” and “regrets any harm to uninvolved civilians”.
Footage shared online after the strike showed bloodied children and lifeless bodies, with their bodies burning and screams of panic and desperation. Their helpless parents pleading with IDF to provide emergency medical care, which they ignored.
Instead, residents rushed to the scene with buckets and water and transported the wounded using private vehicles and donkey carts.
Time to bury Palestinians in the rubble
The strike came as Israeli aerial attacks across the Gaza Strip have escalated; 200 children have been killed and over 1000 people injured in the last 7 days as the IDF has issued a ‘kill or retreat order’ to clear Gaza.
Israeli authorities had earlier issued orders to confiscate Palestinian land around the village, which spans 2,700 hectares (6,670 acres) and is home to about 5,000 people.
A spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defence Agency said 19 other Palestinians had been killed on Sunday, in three separate strikes on residential buildings in central Gaza and Gaza City.
The Red cross issued a statement saying the “overwhelming majority” of the patients had gunshot wounds, it added, and “all responsive individuals” reported they had been trying to access food distribution sites.
Suggesting the civilians were targeted by IDF snipers or by soldiers using Palestinians as target practice, shoot to kill civilians, who the IDF soldiers and Israeli’s have described as animals‘.
Reporting a war crime or genocide in the UK
It said that the hospital had treated more than 3,400 weapon-wounded patients and recorded more than 250 deaths since new food distribution sites opened on 27 May – exceeding “all mass casualty cases treated at the hospital” in the year prior.
The Netanyahu regime has also been on a relentless surge to assassinate medics and doctors in Gaza. Since October 2023, more than 1,580 health workers have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, among them are 91 doctors and 132 nurses. Which according to the Geneva convention and according to the British Met Police guidance on war crimes legislation is is a war crime.
‘Through international treaties the UK has a responsibility to investigate and prosecute those who have committed core international crimes.’
The advice they give is, if you see/hear it, report it online or at your local police station.
