‘Israel’ admits killing five Gazan children at cemetery in latest bombardment

Besieged Gaza Strip (QNN)- Israeli war officials have confirmed that ‘Israel’ was responsible for the killing of five Palestinian children in the last day of the recent bombardment on the Gaza Strip after initially blaming Islamic Jihad movement.

An army inquiry into the incident, which occurred on August 7 in the Al-Faluja Cemetery east of Jabalya refugee camp, has concluded that the five minors were killed by an Israeli airstrike, several war sources confirmed to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

At the time of the airstrike, the Israeli forces claimed that the five were most likely killed by a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket.

Cousins Jamil Nijm Jamil Nijm, 4, Jamil Ihab Nijm, 13, Hamed Haidar Hamed Nijm, 16 and Muhammed Salah Nijm, 16 were killed while they sat next to their grandfather’s grave in the cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip. The boys’ friend Nazmi Fayez Abdulhadi Abukarsh, 16, also died.

According to the Norwegian Refugee Council, three of them had participated in a support program for trauma victims in Gaza.

Between August 5-7, Israeli occupation launched an offensive on the Gaza Strip, killing 49 Palestinian civilians, including 17 children and 4 women, and injuring over 360 others.

Last week, +972 Magazine reported that former Israeli soldiers had revealed how the forces authorized strikes in Gaza knowing civilians will be killed, so long as the number is deemed low enough.

In the case of the recent bombardment of Gaza, the Israeli news site Ynet quoted army officials as saying that the ratio between “non-combatants” and combatants killed was “the best of all the operations”.

The army also admitted that it shoots unarmed people, according to a female officer who gave an interview to Ynet after the latest onslaught. “The [PIJ] operative came down from the position as he was unarmed, and I opened fire,” she said. “When he fell, I fired more.”