Israel kills four Palestinian children playing by the sea in Gaza
Al-Huriya News Agency - Israeli gunboat missiles have killed four Palestinian boys from the same family as they played on a beach in the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the nine-day conflict to 204.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al Kedra says the four boys killed in Gaza's seaport today were all under the age of 18, adding that some of the seven other people wounded were adults.
Israel has intensified air and tank strikes on what it says are Hamas militant targets in the Gaza strip after dropping flyers and making automated phone calls ordering tens of thousands of Palestinians in the north and east of the region to leave their homes by 8am this morning.
Israel's resumption of air and tank strikes on Gaza comes after authorities said one of the hundreds of rockets launched from within the Hamas-dominated region has caused the first Israeli fatality in the nine day-old conflict.
