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Gaza City, July 13, 2025 – An Israeli airstrike killed ten people, including six children, at a water distribution point in central Gaza’s al-Nuseirat refugee camp on Sunday, according to Gaza’s emergency services. The victims were queuing with jerry cans to collect water when a drone-fired missile struck, witnesses reported.Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat received the bodies and treated 16 injured, including seven children, a doctor confirmed. Verified footage showed chaotic scenes as people rushed to aid the wounded, with yellow jerry cans scattered at the site, located 80 meters southwest of Nuseirat Junior High School. The Israeli military admitted a “technical error” caused the munition to miss its intended target, an Islamic Jihad operative, landing dozens of meters away. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) expressed regret for civilian casualties, stating they aim to minimize harm and are reviewing the incident. Gaza’s Civil Defence Agency reported 19 additional deaths from three separate strikes on residential buildings in central Gaza and Gaza City on the same day. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) noted a surge in casualties, treating 132 patients with weapon-related injuries at its Rafah field hospital on Saturday, 31 of whom died. Most injuries were gunshot wounds linked to food distribution sites. The UN human rights office reported 789 aid-related killings since May 27, with 615 near US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites. The IDF denied firing on a separate aid site where 24 were killed, claiming warning shots were used to disperse a perceived threat. The GHF disputed UN casualty figures, calling them misleading. Israel’s campaign in Gaza, launched after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack that killed 1,200 and took 251 hostages, has resulted in at least 57,882 deaths, per Gaza’s health ministry. Over 90% of Gaza’s homes are damaged or destroyed, and critical shortages of fuel, food, and medicine persist. On Saturday, 75,000 liters of fuel entered Gaza for the first time in 130 days, deemed insufficient by the UN, which warned of failing hospitals and infrastructure.
