Headline Roundup • July 14th, 2025
Israel Kills 10 Gazan Civilians Collecting Water, Blames ‘Technical Malfunction’
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Israel reportedly killed 92 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including 10 who were trying to collect water at an aid point near the Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Details: Six of the 10 killed while collecting water were children. Israel blamed a “technical malfunction” for the deaths and said it was aiming for an Islamic Jihad militant “dozens of meters” away.
For Context: Sunday is the latest multitude of civilian deaths in Gaza that some media outlets have blamed on Israel. In early June, many mainstream media outlets reported that 31 Palestinians were killed and over 170 wounded when Israeli forces opened fire towards a crowd of people receiving humanitarian aid, though Israel described the “allegations” as “false.” A week prior in May, Israel struck the home of a Palestinian doctor, killing nine of her ten children and leaving her surviving son and husband badly injured, according to the hospital where she works.
Key Quotes: Al Jazeera (Lean Left bias) reporter Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said, “This is close to 10 times and just in the past few months when people were directly and deliberately targeted as they were trying to get water.” The Israel Defense Forces said, “Due to a technical malfunction in the munition, it struck dozens of meters away from the intended target,” and that it “makes every effort to minimize harm to uninvolved civilians.”
How The Media Covered It: Al Jazeera included reporting on all the deaths sustained in Gaza on Sunday, with a total of 92. The Times of Israel (Center) framed coverage through ceasefire talks stalling and included reporting from Jihadist media, Israeli media, and Associated Press (Left). The Daily Mail (Right) noted that children were killed in its headline, something that was more common with outlets from the left and center.
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Featured Coverage of this Story
Israel’s military said Sunday that a strike near a Gaza water distribution point that reportedly killed several children was an accident, as Israeli aircraft pounded targets across the Strip.
The strike, which the Israel Defense Forces attributed to a “technical malfunction,” came as negotiations on a ceasefire and hostage release deal continued to stall, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly set to convene top ministers and defense brass in a bid to find a way to break the logjam.
At least six children have been killed after an Israeli missile strike malfunctioned and landed on a crowd of people queuing for water, it has been claimed.
The strike, which killed a total of 10 people and injured 17 others, hit a water distribution point in the Nuseirat refugee camp according to Gazan officials.
Witnesses said a drone fired a missile at people who were filling up their jerry cans next to a water tanker.
Eyad Baba/AFP
At least 10 Palestinians have been killed at a water collection point in central Gaza, six of them children, as famine spreads in the besieged enclave and food and water supplies remain at critically low levels.
Israeli forces on Sunday killed at least 92 Palestinians, 52 of them in Gaza City, as they targeted residential areas and displacement camps across Gaza, medical and local sources told Al Jazeera.
