RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Gaza - 16 August 2022. Relatives of five Palestinian children who killed during the latest fighting between Israel-Gaza hold placards during a rally next to their graves, in Jabalia in the northern of Gaza strip.

0.1 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Ihab Najm, the father of Jamil, one of the five children who were killed during the latest fighting between Israel-Gaza.
0.2 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Abu Hazem Diab, grandfather of the child Jamil Najm.
0.3 SOUNDBITE (in Arabic) Salah Abdel-Aty, President of the International Commission to Support the Rights of the Palestinian People.

STORYLINE:

Israel admitted responsibility for killing five Palestinian children in an air strike on the Fallujah cemetery in the town of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 7 August, after it had initially claimed they were killed as a result of a missile fired by Islamic Jihad.

"Israeli defence officials have confirmed that Israel was responsible for the deaths of five minors killed on the last day of the recent hostilities with Islamic Jihad this month," reported Haaretz newspaper today.

"An army inquiry into the incident, which occurred on August 7 in the Al-Faluja Cemetery east of Jabalya, has concluded that the minors were killed by an Israeli airstrike, several defence sources have confirmed," added the newspaper.

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