Various news outlets are reporting that it was a ‘suspected’ Israeli air strike that killed 10 at the Al Shati refugee camp in Gaza.
Middle East Eye: In pictures: Death and devastation at al-Shati refugee camp
A suspected Israeli strike on a playground in the western Gaza City’s Al-Shati Camp killed 10 children on Monday, though the Israeli army denied culpability –
The Nation: Missile Strike at Al-Shati Refugee Camp Kills 10, Including 8 Children
Ten people were killed in the attack, including eight children, and forty were injured, thirty-two of them children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Israel claimed a misfired militant rocket caused the carnage, but several eyewitnesses blamed the explosion on an airstrike.
The Daily Beast: Israel’s Campaign to Send Gaza Back to the Stone Age
In the emergency room yesterday afternoon, young children writhed in pain on gurneys waiting for scrambling ER doctors to attend to them following an air strike on the Al Shati Refugee camp. Nine of the ten people killed in the attack were children and are many more were wounded.
However, Italian journalist Gabriele Barbati on the ground in Gaza affirms the Israeli claim that the “massacre” at the Al Shati refugee camp was actually caused by a misfired Hamas rocket.
International journos say: feeling today's massacre in shaati beach playground #gaza was misfired rocket by Hamas or factions
— gabrielebarbati (@gabrielebarbati) July 28, 2014
@AndreaGContini @gabrielebarbati
Kindly share the link of source.— shah (@twitafridi) July 29, 2014
@twitafridi @gabrielebarbati Gabriele was in Gaza, till today. When he felt safe from Hamas retaliation he wrote freely about what he saw.
— ? ((( AGC ))) (@AndreaGContini) July 29, 2014
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@twitafridi @AndreaGContini @gabrielebarbati the tweet itself is the source!
— Allon (@Windy_idiots) July 29, 2014
Out of #Gaza far from #Hamas retaliation: misfired rocket killed children yday in Shati. Witness: militants rushed and cleared debris
— gabrielebarbati (@gabrielebarbati) July 29, 2014
Gaza terrorists fired rockets today, hoping to kill Israelis. Instead, they hit a hospital & a refugee camp in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/dXNhtCHTQc
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 28, 2014
.@AmbDermer shows @mitchellreports pic showing origin of Gaza terrorist rockets that hit Shifa hospital & Shati camp pic.twitter.com/hCvsoveuMF
— Embassy of Israel (@IsraelinUSA) July 29, 2014
@IDFSpokesperson said truth in communique released yesterday about Shati camp massacre. It was not #Israel behind it
— gabrielebarbati (@gabrielebarbati) July 29, 2014
There will be journalists in Israel who report that the IDF caused these deaths. They will do so without fear of retaliation from Israel. That should tell you something.
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