Alwaght-Four Palestinians in Rafah were killed while 30 others were injured Thursday in an explosion from an ordinance left from Israeli regime's 2014 war on the Gaza Strip south of the besieged enclave.
Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said the ordnance exploded as Palestinian workers were helping the family remove rubble from a house destroyed in the brutal 50-day war launched by the Israeli regime against Palestinians in Gaza.
A ceasefire signed in late August 2014 put an end to seven weeks of catastrophic loss of life and destruction, but 7,000 unexploded ordnances (UXOs) remained, according the UN, of which about a third have since been cleared.
The UXOs continue to pose a threat to civilians and humanitarian workers. Operations to clear UXOs have been hindered by restrictions on the entry of equipment to the Gaza Strip.
On Wednesday, a senior Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, official, Mahmoud Zahar, said Israel must end its eight-year blockade on the Gaza Strip if it wanted to maintain the ceasefire.
Human rights groups say there is substantial evidence that the Israeli regime committed war crimes during a military campaign against the Gaza Strip last year.
The existence of such evidence was announced in a joint report by Amnesty International, a London-based rights group, and Forensic Architecture, a research project based at Goldsmiths, the University of London. “There is strong evidence that Israeli forces committed war crimes in their relentless and massive bombardment of residential areas of Rafah in order to foil the capture of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, displaying a shocking disregard for civilian lives,” Philip Luther, the director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International, said in a late July statement.
Last summer, the Tel Aviv regime launched a brutal attack against the besieged Palestinian territory, killing over 2,140 Palestinians, including 557 children.
The aggression also left 11,100 Palestinians injured, including 3,374 children and 2,088 women, and displaced over 170,000 others.
The Israeli regime imposed an all-out land, aerial, and naval blockade on Gaza in June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standards of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty. The siege has turned the densely-populated coastal sliver, home to some 1.7 million Palestinians, into the largest open-air prison in the world.
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