by
Clark Kent
Israel
Palestine Gaza Al-DalouThe Israeli Defense Force has confirmed
that while targeting Hamas’ rocket chief it mistakenly bombed
the home of the Al-Dalou family, killing at least 11 civilians,
four of them children and toddlers.

“Israel
has killed a family of eleven people this evening, and many,
many more. If Israel wants to stop its aggression, then we can
talk. But before then, how could we consider any deal?” Salama
Maroof, a senior Hamas spokesman told the Daily Telegraph.
IDF
said the source of the error was either a failure to laser-paint
the correct target or that one of the munitions in the strike
misfired, Haaretz newspaper reported. The Israeli military is
investigating the incident.
The
Israeli military targeted Hamas’ rocket-launching unit led by
Yehiya Rabiah, but apparently hit the house of a neighbor, the
newspaper noted. Rabiah seems to have survived the attack despite
earlier claims that he was killed.
Pictures
from the site of the attack show the bodies of dead children
taken from the ruble of their home. Nine members of the Al-Dalou
family, all of them women and children were killed, two other
people were also among the dead.
The
latest deaths add to the growing toll of Gazan children killed
in Israeli air strikes. So far at least 75 people have been
killed in the attacks, 13 of them are childen.
Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that sooner or later,
Israel would be held accountable for the “massacre.”
The
child death toll is expected to rise unless the two sides enter
negotiations soon. However the Israelis are maintaining their
belligerent stance.
“The
Israeli military is prepared to significantly expand the operation.
The soldiers are ready for any activity that could take place…the
Israel Defense Forces have attacked more than 1,000 terror targets
in the Gaza Strip and it continues operations at this very moment,”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a weekly cabinet
meeting.