Israeli drone strike kills two boys in Gaza, family says

Family members said an Israeli drone strike killed two Palestinian boys in Gaza on Saturday, with Israel's military saying it had identified two suspects "posing an immediate threat."

The military said it saw two people who "conducted suspicious activities."

Uncles of the slain children told AFP the boys were brothers aged eight and 10, and that they had been out looking for firewood.

Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza's civil defense agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas authority, told AFP that the two brothers were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, at around 8:30 a.m.

Bassal named them as Fadi and Jumaa Tamer Abu Assi.

Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis confirmed receiving the bodies of the children and said their funerals were held in the afternoon.

The fatal drone strike happened around the so-called Yellow Line within the Gaza Strip, a boundary marked with yellow concrete blocks.

Under the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Israeli army withdrew to positions behind the Yellow Line.

Since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, there have been multiple deadly incidents involving Israeli forces firing on people in the area of the Yellow Line.