Palestinian officials said Israeli air strikes and artillery fire killed 10 Palestinians in Gaza, the highest Palestinian toll in a single day since 2004. Seven people, including five from the same family, were killed in what Palestinian officials said was Israeli shellfire from boats on to a crowded beach.
Among the dead were three children, aged 1, 3 and 10. Their sister, who had been swimming, survived. Twenty people were wounded. Covered in blood, children screamed as adults carried the wounded and dead from the sand.
And the standard military denial:
"We did not fire into a place where there were innocents," Major-General Yoav Galant told reporters. "We are exploring two possibilities, a wrongly aimed artillery shell or an independent incident we were not involved in."
He did not say who else might have been behind the deaths.
How many years have we heard the Israeli military say that they do not kill civilians? And how many civilians have actually been killed by the Israeli military?
Why do the world's most powerful countries stand by and do absloutely nothing besides expressing their empty 'regrets'? When will Israel be held accountable?
When will this end?
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