Israel Blames Hamas For Gaza Hospital Strike

Israel has accused Hamas of misfiring two rockets - one of which struck Gaza's main hospital and the other a refugee camp, killing seven children.

Palestinian police and medics had earlier suggested Israeli missiles for the strikes on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, causing casualties, and a nearby park in Al-Shati refugee camp.

A Palestinian official said at least 10 people in total were killed in the strike on a playground in the camp park, and a further 46 injured.

However, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) denied responsibility for the attacks and said it had not been operating in the area at all.

A girl is treated for injuries at the Al-Shifa hospital

Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli army spokesman, said. "This incident was carried out by Gaza terrorists whose rockets fell short and hit the Shifa Hospital and the Beach (Shati) camp," he said.

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) also tweeted: "Since the beginning of the operation #IDF has documented approximately 200 rockets & mortars that landed short within #Gaza."

Sky's David Bowden, who visited the hospital in Gaza City, said: "It is a mess down there. I've seen injured children, some very badly injured and not so badly injured, and in the morgue I have seen dead children.

"I spoke to one man who carried his nine-year-old son Ahmed to the hospital. He was playing outside, when he claimed, an Israeli missile struck. He thankfully has survived. Other people I spoke to said their child had been hit by an Israeli drone strike.

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"Clearly, the people there believe it was the Israelis. And of course, the outside world will see this as another example of the violence here in Gaza of both sides as being out of control, and there will be renewed calls, even louder, for it all to stop."

Israeli media, meanwhile, reported four people had been killed and nine wounded in Gaza mortar strikes on southern Israel.

Sky's Jonathan Samuels, in Ashkelon, said it was understood the casualties were Israeli soldiers.

Shortlt afterwards, the Israeli army warned Palestinians living in Shejaiya, Zeitun and eastern Jabaliya around Gaza City to evacuate and flee towards the city centre.

An Israeli tank on the border with Gaza, earlier today during the ceasefire

The explosions came less than an hour after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon likened the conflict to a "manmade hurricane", saying "whole neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble".

He demanded an end to the violence "in the name of humanity" and accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal of being irresponsible and "morally wrong" for putting their own people at risk of being killed.

The Secretary-General called on them to demonstrate "political will" and compassionate leadership" to end the suffering.

He said Gaza was in a "critical condition" following Israeli strikes resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Palestian civilians, which he said raised "serious questions about proportionality".

Attacks resumed ending a brief lull in fighting at the start of a major Muslim holiday, as international efforts to end the bloody conflict continued.

"Any process to resolve the crisis in Gaza in a lasting and meaningful way must lead to the disarmament of Hamas and all terrorist groups," said US Secretary of State John Kerry.

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