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💢 “Why should a child filling up water die?”: Israeli attack kills four, including two children and a woman, in Gaza City Eight others were also wounded in Tuesday’s attack in the Al-Katiba area of western Gaza City, where families had gathered to collect water. “We were just sitting there, minding our business. Nothing was happening. The water tanker came, and we started filling up water, us and our children,” Faiza Al-Bahtini, the aunt of one of the children killed, told Drop Site’s Mohamed Ahmed. “Then we heard gunfire coming from every direction. After that, the vehicles came, the Israelis started bombing, and the massacre happened.” The Israeli military claimed its special forces were targeting the head of Hamas’s internal security apparatus in Gaza and accompanying strikes were carried out to “remove threats.” A resistance-affiliated security channel said the operation targeted a senior Hamas figure but was thwarted, while acknowledging that a security official was abducted. It said three “collaborators” who provided support and intelligence were detained. Members of Israeli-backed Palestinian militias were reportedly seen in the area during the attack. “My nephew was martyred. His brother was wounded. Their mother was wounded too, covered in shrapnel and badly burned,” Al-Bahtini said. “Wherever we go, wherever we are displaced to, there is bombing around us. Where are we supposed to go?” Abu al-Abd, an eyewitness who was filling water with his four children, said: “What is the crime of a child filling up water? … Because a child was filling up water, Netanyahu shot at him. What have these children done to you? Go and see for yourselves so you know we’re telling the truth. Go look at those killed. They’re all children.” 🎥 Mohamed Ahmed