Two Palestinian children were killed yesterday after they came across an unexploded Israeli shell in the occupied Negev.
Israeli police spokesperson, Luba Al-Samri, said in a statement that an initial investigation, conducted by the authority’s explosive experts, revealed that the blast took place in the Negev village of Al-Zarnouk.
Al-Samri explained that the two boys, Omar Ismail Abu Qwaidar, 8, and his 10-year-old cousin Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Qwaider, were apparently playing with the ordnance when it exploded. Investigations in the incident is still ongoing, she stressed.
It is thought the weaponry was left behind following an earlier Israeli military exercise in the area.