Five Palestinian children were killed on the final day of Israel’s recent bombing of the beleaguered Gaza Strip, according to Israeli military sources, who have verified that Israel is to blame for their deaths.
A number of defense sources informed that Israel was responsible for the strike on the Falluja cemetery on August 7 after an army investigation.
The Israeli army attributed the casualties at the time of the strike to a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket.
Jamil Nijm’s cousins killed while sitting near to their grandfather’s tomb at a cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip, Jamil Nijm, 4, Jamil Ihab Nijm, 13, Hamed Haidar Hamed Nijm, 16, and Muhammad Salah Nijm, 16, were all killed while sitting near to their grandfather’s tomb.
Friend of the boys, Nazmi Fayez Abdulhadi Abukarsh,who was 16 years old, also passed away.
During the flare-up, Islamic Jihad launched a large number of rockets in retaliation to the Israeli attack on Gaza.
A gunfight that broke out during an arrest raid in the West Bank city of Nablus the day following the ceasefire left dozens of Palestinians injured. Three Palestinians were murdered.
According to human rights organizations, it is more than obvious that Israel has been committing war crimes during its attacks on Gaza based on the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
