Israeli strike kills children at clinic: Gaza civil defence

Eight children – killed as they queued for nutritional supplements outside a health clinic – were among 66 people who died in Israeli strikes in Gaza, Gaza’s civil defence agency said. The agency said the children were among 17 victims in a strike on Deir El Balah. According to the UN children’s agency, the dead included a one-year-old boy whose mother said he had spoken his first words just hours earlier. The mother was critically injured, UNICEF added. “No parent should have to face such tragedy,” UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said in a statement.