Israeli ‘double-tap’ air strike responsible for killing schoolboy in Gaza
Two people were killed in the assault on Gaza City - a paramedic and a 15-year-old boy returning from school.
An Israeli “double-tap” air strike killed two people, including a 15-year-old boy, in Gaza City on Tuesday, despite the US-brokered “ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas in October last year.
An Israeli drone targeted a group of Palestinians in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City. Israeli forces claimed they were targeting Hamas operatives.
A “double-tap” strike maximises casualties by bombing a location once, waiting for other people to arrive at the scene to render assistance, and then bombing it again.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry on Wednesday, six people had been killed, and 71 others injured in Israeli attacks on the besieged enclave in the previous 24 hours alone.