Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Ahmed says his son, Abdullah, was “searching for a sip of water” when he took the family’s jerrycans on Sunday morning and headed as usual to one of the water distribution points in the urban Nuseirat camp, in central Gaza.
“That area was inhabited by displaced people, others who were exhausted by the war, and those who have seen the worst due to the imposed siege and limitations, and the ongoing aggression,” Mahmoud said in an interview with a local journalist working for the BBC.
“The children, Abdullah among them, stood in a queue with empty stomachs, empty jerrycans, and thirsty lips,” he added.
“Minutes after the children and thirsty people of the camp gathered, the warplanes bombed those children and the water distribution point, without prior notice.
Graphic video filmed by another local journalist and verified by the BBC showed the immediate aftermath of the Israeli strike on a street in the New Camp area of Nuseirat.
He passes two men carrying young children before coming across a destroyed structure, beneath which dozens of yellow plastic jerrycans are clustered.
Women scream as bystanders pull a man from the rubble, while others try to help another man covered in blood. Other adults and children are seen lying motionless nearby.
Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat said 10 people, including six children, were killed in the strike, and that 16 others were injured.
Along with Abdullah, they named the children who died as Badr al-Din Qaraman, Siraj Khaled Ibrahim, Ibrahim Ashraf Abu Urayban, Karam Ashraf al-Ghussein and Lana Ashraf al-Ghussein.
