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At Least 10 Children Killed by Israeli Drones While Waiting Outside Clinic for Medical Aid and Food

• https://needtoknow.news, BBC and Channel 4

The Israeli military said it struck a "Hamas terrorist" and regretted any harm to civilians. 

More than 100 Palestinians have been reported to have been killed on average each day this month. Ceasefire talks are at a standstill. 

The Israeli Defense Minister has ordered plans for a camp to be built in the city of Raffah would hold all 2 million people living in Gaza. A former soldier said that any transfer of a civilian population is a form of a war crime and ethnic cleansing.

At least 15 Palestinians, including 10 children, have been killed in an Israeli strike while queuing for nutritional supplements outside a medical clinic in central Gaza.

US-based aid group Project Hope, which runs the clinic, said the attack was a blatant violation of international law. The Israeli military said it struck a "Hamas terrorist" and regretted any harm to civilians. The victims were among 66 people reportedly killed in Israeli strikes on the same day.

Project Hope said the attack in front of its Altayara health clinic in Deir al-Balah happened as patients gathered outside, waiting to receive treatment for malnutrition, infections and chronic illnesses.

Graphic footage posted on social media, which was verified by the BBC, showed the immediate aftermath of the attack, with adults and young children lying in a street, some severely wounded and others not moving.

At the mortuary of nearby al-Aqsa hospital, relatives of those killed wept as they wrapped the dead children in white shrouds and body bags before performing funeral prayers. One woman told the BBC that her pregnant niece Manal, and her daughter Fatima had been killed.

Project Hope's president and CEO, Rabih Torbay, said the aid group's clinics were "a place of refuge in Gaza where people bring their small children, women access pregnancy and postpartum care, people receive treatment for malnutrition, and more".


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