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Israeli bomb from Gaza war explodes killing four from Palestinian family Gaza officials: unexploded Israeli bomb from 2014 war kills four in Rafah
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At least four members of a Palestinian family have been killed and 13 others injured in Gaza after an unexploded Israeli bomb from last year’s war went off. At least four Palestinians from the same family have reportedly been killed and 30 other people injured after an explosion in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said on Thursday 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, who rule the coastal territory. Gazan officials said the explosion at a home in the Shabura refugee camp was caused by an unexploded Israeli bomb from last year’s war.
The bomb is believed to have been dropped in an air strike on the house during the war. Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said the ordnance exploded as Palestinian workers were helping the family remove rubble from a house destroyed in the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas, who rule the coastal territory.
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. Seventy-eight Palestinians have been killed or injured by unexploded ordinances in the Gaza Strip since the war.
More details soon A ceasefire signed in late August 2014 put an end to seven weeks of catastrophic loss of life and destruction, but 7,000 unexploded ordnances (UXOs) remained, according the UN, of which about a third have since been cleared.
The UXOs continue to pose a threat to civilians and humanitarian workers. Operations to clear UXOs have been hindered by restrictions on the entry of equipment to the Gaza Strip.
On Wednesday, a senior Hamas official, Mahmoud Zahhar, said Israel must end its eight-year blockade on the Gaza Strip if it wanted to maintain the ceasefire. He made the statement at a closing ceremony for a summer camp organised by Hamas’s military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, Maan News reported.