Gaza War Ordnance Explodes Killing 4 in Coastal Strip

Explosion of ordnance  believed to have been dropped in an airstrike during last year’s Operation Protective Edge, kills 4 Gazans from same family & wounds 13 others, reports Palestinian health official.

By Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

 

A Palestinian health official says at least four Palestinians from the same family were killed and 13 people were injured in the Gaza Strip by an explosion of Israeli military ordnance left over from last summer’s war.

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza during last summer’s war –  Photo: Reuters

Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra says the ordnance exploded as Palestinian workers were helping family members remove rubble from a house destroyed in the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas, which rules the coastal enclave.

The ordnance is believed to have been dropped in an airstrike on the house during the war.

Last year, six people, including an Associated Press video journalist and his Palestinian translator, were killed as Gaza police engineers tried to defuse unexploded Israeli ordnance. Three people, including an AP photographer, were badly injured.

 

View original Israel Hayom publication at: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=27411