A Gaza park was attacked Monday, killing at least 10 Palestinians, including children, a Palestinian health official said. Israelis and the Palestinians traded blame for the strike, according to The Associated Press.
An Israeli air strike hit a public garden in the Beach refugee camp in northern Gaza killing five people, three of them children, according to medics, ending a relative lull in fighting during the Muslim Eid holiday, the AP reported.
Another explosion shook the grounds of Gaza's main Shifa hospital on Tuesday, but it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties, according to the AP.
Israeli and Palestinian militants in Gaza have been locked in three weeks of fighting which have killed 1,049 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, the AP reported. Some 43 Israeli soldiers have died along with three civilians killed by projectiles within Israeli.
Children were playing on a swing when the strike hit the park in the Shati refugee camp on the edge of Gaza City, said Ayman Sahabani, head of the emergency room at nearby Shifa Hospital, according to the AP.
He gave the death toll and said 46 people also were wounded.
The strike on the park occurred a few minutes after the hospital's outpatient clinic was hit, leaving several people wounded, the AP reported. Camera crews were prevented from filming the area of impact at Shifa.
Gaza's police operations room, Civil Defense and Sahabani said the deaths and injuries were caused by Israeli airstrikes, according to the AP.
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli army spokesman, denied Israel was involved, the AP reported. "This incident was carried out by Gaza terrorists whose rockets fell short and hit the Shifa Hospital and the Beach (Shati) camp," Lerner said.
The strikes occurred on a day of heavy fighting after a temporary humanitarian cease-fire as international efforts intensified to end the three-week war between Israel and Hamas militants, according to the AP.
Israeli jets struck several sites in Gaza and rockets continued to fall on Israel, the Israeli military said, disrupting a relative lull in the Gaza war at the start of a major Muslim holiday, the AP reported.
