Children fetching water killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, emergency officials say
Their bodies were sent to Nuseirat's al-Awda Hospital, which also treated 16 injured people, including seven children, a doctor there said.
Ten people, including six children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza on Sunday, emergency service officials say.
Their bodies were sent to Nuseirat's al-Awda Hospital, which also treated 16 injured people, including seven children, a doctor there said.
Eyewitnesses told the BBC a drone fired a missile at a crowd queuing with empty jerry cans next to a water tanker in al-Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Israeli military has been asked to comment.
Separately, the International Committee of the Red Cross said it had treated more mass casualty cases at its Rafah field hospital in southern Gaza in the last six weeks than in the 12 months before that.
Unverified footage shared online after the strike showed bloodied children and lifeless bodies, with screams of panic and desperation.
Residents rushed to the scene and transported the wounded using private vehicles and donkey carts.
The strike came as Israeli aerial attacks across the Gaza Strip have escalated.
A spokesperson for Gaza's Civil Defence Agency said 19 other Palestinians had been killed on Sunday, in three separate strikes on residential buildings in central Gaza and Gaza City.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that its field hospital in Rafah had received 132 patients "suffering from weapon-related injuries" on Saturday, 31 of whom died.
ICRC said the "overwhelming majority" of the patients had gunshot wounds and "all responsive individuals" reported they had been trying to access food distribution sites.
It added that the hospital had treated more than 3,400 weapon-wounded patients and recorded more than 250 deaths since new food distribution sites opened on 27 May - exceeding "all mass casualty cases treated at the hospital" in the year prior.
"The alarming frequency and scale of these mass casualty incidents underscore the horrific conditions civilians in Gaza are enduring," the ICRC said.
On Friday, the UN human rights office said that it had recorded 789 aid-related killings.
