The IDF spokesperson on Tuesday responded to the report earlier in the day of an explosion in the Gaza Strip that killed a child and injured several others.

“Another tragedy in the Gaza Strip today,” the IDF spokesperson stated. “Weapons stored unsafely in the house of a member of a Palestinian terrorist group exploded and killed a young child in the vicinity.”

“These are the sad consequences of militarizing civilian areas for terrorist activity.”

The Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza confirmed on Tuesday that an “accidental explosion in the vicinity of a house” in Khan Younis killed a child and injured at least seven others, including at least one other child.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)