6 Palestinian kids killed collecting water
Amid stalled peace talks, at least 30 Palestinians, six of them children, were killed and more than a dozen others were wounded in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, local officials said, in an Israeli missile strike. The children were killed collecting water in a missile attack which the military said missed its target.
The Israeli military said it had intended to hit a militant in the area but that a malfunction had caused the missile to fall “dozens of metres off target”.
“The IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved civilians,” it said in a statement, adding that the incident was under review.
The strike hit a water distribution point in Nuseirat refugee camp, killing six children and injuring 17 others, said Ahmed Abu Saifan, an emergency physician at Al-Awda Hospital.
Water shortages in Gaza have worsened sharply in recent weeks, with fuel shortages causing desalination and sanitation facilities to close, making people dependent on collection centres where they can fill up their plastic containers.
In another attack, Palestinian media reported that a prominent hospital consultant was among 12 people killed by an Israeli strike mid-morning on a busy market in Gaza City.
Gaza’s health ministry said on Sunday that more than 58,000 people had been killed since the start of the war.
US citizen beaten to death
A Palestinian American man was beaten to death by settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and a second man was shot dead, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement, in a confrontation overnight. US citizen Sayafollah Musallet, 20, also known as Saif, was severely beaten in the incident on Friday evening in Sinjil, north of Ramallah, the ministry said. Hussein Al-Shalabi, 23 was shot in the chest.
UK arrests 70 pro-Palestinians
More than 70 people were arrested on Saturday at protests in the UK against the Palestine Action group being proscribed a terrorist organisation by the British government following a break-in and vandalism at a Royal Air Force base. The demonstrators were chanting, displaying articles such as flags, signs or logos. A further 16 arrests were made in Manchester.
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