Four children, members of the extended Bakr family that’s been fishing in this part of the Mediterranean for generations, were killed as they played on the Gaza Beach after an Israeli warship shelled the area. The overall reported death toll among Palestinians thus rose to 213, 80% of them civilians.
Before killing the children, the Israelis shelled a fisherman’s hut. The shelling was witnessed by many foreign reporters who stay in a hotel nearby. The boys killed were between 9 and 11 years of age.
- Zakaria Ahed Bakr, 10
- Ahed Atef Bakr, 10
- Mohammed Ramez Bakr, 11
- Ismail Mohammed Bakr, 9
According to the Times of Israel, senior Israeli military spokesperson Moti Almoz blamed the deaths of the boys on Hamas and said “There was a [military] target embedded among civilians“.
AFP also quoted Israeli military source as saying that “based on preliminary results the target of this strike was Hamas terrorist operatives. The reported civilian casualties from this strike are a tragic outcome.”
Please note that until further notice, we have disabled the previous post from Gaza after a request from what sounds like a family member.
Props to Best Gore member JohnTrololo for the video following video filmed by French journalists. Bodies of children are blurred.
