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| Foreign correspondents reporting from Gaza on Wednesday offered visceral accounts of a deadly attack that killed four children on the beach outside a hotel in which the journalists were staying. | Foreign correspondents reporting from Gaza on Wednesday offered visceral accounts of a deadly attack that killed four children on the beach outside a hotel in which the journalists were staying. |
| Several reporters, including Jonathan Miller of Britain’s Channel 4 News, Ayman Mohyeldin of NBC News and Peter Beaumont of The Guardian, described the immediate aftermath of the shelling in text accounts and images uploaded to Twitter, even as they tried to help three other boys wounded in the barrage. | Several reporters, including Jonathan Miller of Britain’s Channel 4 News, Ayman Mohyeldin of NBC News and Peter Beaumont of The Guardian, described the immediate aftermath of the shelling in text accounts and images uploaded to Twitter, even as they tried to help three other boys wounded in the barrage. |
| Mr. Mohyeldin reported that the four boys who were killed in the attack were between 9 and 11 years old and had been playing soccer and hide-and-seek on the beach. | Mr. Mohyeldin reported that the four boys who were killed in the attack were between 9 and 11 years old and had been playing soccer and hide-and-seek on the beach. |
| He also reported that the deaths illustrated that warnings from Israel’s military urging civilians to evacuate the area are ineffective. “The vast majority of the people here do not take the warnings seriously because it’s not clear where they are supposed to evacuate to,” he said. | He also reported that the deaths illustrated that warnings from Israel’s military urging civilians to evacuate the area are ineffective. “The vast majority of the people here do not take the warnings seriously because it’s not clear where they are supposed to evacuate to,” he said. |
| Mr. Beaumont, who helped administer first aid to a boy with a shrapnel wound in his chest, called the incident “a personal low point,” and reported that fellow journalists standing outside the Al-Deira hotel shouted “at unseen Israeli gunners who can’t hear them: ‘They are only children.'” | Mr. Beaumont, who helped administer first aid to a boy with a shrapnel wound in his chest, called the incident “a personal low point,” and reported that fellow journalists standing outside the Al-Deira hotel shouted “at unseen Israeli gunners who can’t hear them: ‘They are only children.'” |
| A Palestinian health official told Reuters that the children were killed by shelling from an Israeli gunboat. There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces. | A Palestinian health official told Reuters that the children were killed by shelling from an Israeli gunboat. There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces. |
| The Israeli military shared video on social networks on Wednesday to illustrate that it takes what officials have described as great pains to avoid civilian casualties. | The Israeli military shared video on social networks on Wednesday to illustrate that it takes what officials have described as great pains to avoid civilian casualties. |
| A local news agency, Media 24, shared on Facebook what it said were images of four people running from the shelling on the beach during the attack. The authenticity of the photographs could not be immediately confirmed, but a New York Times reporter in Gaza said that they seemed to be genuine. A driver for the same agency was killed in an airstrike on his car last week, even though it was marked “TV.” | A local news agency, Media 24, shared on Facebook what it said were images of four people running from the shelling on the beach during the attack. The authenticity of the photographs could not be immediately confirmed, but a New York Times reporter in Gaza said that they seemed to be genuine. A driver for the same agency was killed in an airstrike on his car last week, even though it was marked “TV.” |
| Mr. Miller later posted images of the funeral procession for the four boys killed Wednesday, and noted that they come from a family well-known in the area for its fishermen, “an extremely dangerous pursuit in Gaza.” | Mr. Miller later posted images of the funeral procession for the four boys killed Wednesday, and noted that they come from a family well-known in the area for its fishermen, “an extremely dangerous pursuit in Gaza.” |