Five children in Gaza among those killed by Israeli strike while fetching water
Source: The Guardian
Latest attack comes as Israel’s military urges people to leave Gaza City with 60,000 more reservists to be called up
At least nine people, including five children, have been killed in an Israeli strike while fetching water in al-Mawasi, an area of southern Gaza which Israel has designated as a safe zone, health officials said.
A doctor from al-Nasser hospital shared a picture of the children’s bodies in the hospital, as well as a picture of water jugs left in a pool of blood at the site of the attack on Tuesday.
The attack came shortly after the Israel Defense Forces encouraged people to leave Gaza City for al-Mawasi, before Israel’s looming invasion of Gaza City. The Israeli military has sought to displace people from the city before its offensive and has promised that southern Gaza would be able to accommodate them, despite experts disagreeing with the suggestion.
“We wish to remind you that in al-Mawasi, enhanced services will be provided with an emphasis on access to medical care, water and food,” the Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a post on X on Tuesday afternoon.
Sprawling tent camps have sprung up in Gaza City during the Israeli military offensive as displaced Palestinians have sought shelter there. Photograph: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/02/children-among-those-killed-in-gaza-while-fetching-water-by-israeli-strike
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Free to all Palestinians, especially thirsty and hungry little children.
I wonder why. 
Unspeakable intentional cruelty. Who does this? Who can stand by and allow it??
A ground invasion and intensified aerial bombardment of a crowded rubble-city of a million tent-dwelling starving, water-deprived, ill people who have no means of "evacuating" safely, or are too sick, malnourished, old or afraid to leave -especially now, after another strike on the supposed "enhanced services" safe zone...
The timing of this attack is surreal too. Claim that you want people to evacuate and go to a safe zone, entice them with "enhanced services" - and the very NEXT DAY bomb that safe zone, killing 9 including 5 children! I really hate to think this was a deliberate ploy to scare people from evacuating but I'm willing to believe anything now. It IS a genocide so the more killed the "better", right?
As for the "enhanced services" in the "safe zone of al-Mawasi"?
Many residents of Gaza City have refused to leave, suspicious of what awaits them in southern Gaza after Israel has attacked so-called humanitarian zones in the past.
Would any orher country but Israel be allowed to treat a civilian population with such malice and cruelty - with no repercussions, sanctions, or an attempt by the international community to save the civilians? What the hell is going on? Are we living in Omelas and the Palestinians are the child in the basement?? I'm walking away...we all should.
