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Jacob Phillips

Israeli airstrike kills children collecting water in Gaza, say officials

People inspect the site of an Israeli strike that killed Palestinians, gathered to collect water from a distribution point - (REUTERS)

At least six Palestinian children and two adults were killed in an Israeli air strike when they went to collect water in central Gaza, officials have said.

The Israeli military said the missile had been intended to hit an Islamic Jihad militant in the area but that a malfunction had caused it to fall "dozens of metres from the target".

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