IDF admits error after strike kills ten people collecting water in Gaza
It comes as Gaza's health ministry has said the total number of those killed in the territory since the conflict began in October 2023 has topped 58,000.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said the strike on Sunday morning, in al-Nuseirat refugee camp, was targeting an 'Islamic Jihad terrorist' but had gone wrong.
It said the 'munition fell dozens of metres from the target', adding that the incident is now under review.
Officials at Al-Awda Hospital said it had also received 16 injured people following the airstrike.
Another 11 people were killed and more than 50 injured on Sunday further north in central Gaza City when an Israeli airstrike targeted a crowded junction, according to Civil Defence officials.
The IDF said on Sunday that it had destroyed weapons and tunnels used by Hamas in northern Gaza and the air force had carried out attacks on more than 150 targets across the Gaza Strip, including 'booby-trapped buildings, weapons depots, anti-tank missile and sniper positions'.
Earlier on Sunday, before the strike on al-Nuseirat, the Palestinian health ministry reported that 139 bodies had been brought to Gaza hospitals in the past 24 hours, with a number of victims still under the rubble.
It was the highest number reported since July 2. The ministry said the latest casualties brought the total number of people killed since October 7, 2023 to 58,026.
There are no signs of progress during ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington last week to discuss the deal with the Trump administration, but a new sticking point has emerged over the deployment of Israeli troops during the truce.
Israel says it will only end the war once Hamas surrenders, disarms and goes into exile, something it refuses to do.
Hamas says it is willing to free all the remaining 50 hostages, less than half said to be alive, in exchange for an end to the war and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces.
The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251.
Most of the hostages have since been released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.
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