Children killed in Gaza blast

Two pupils of a Palestinian primary school were killed today in an explosion at a refugee camp.

The two children were killed by Israeli tank fire, a Palestinian security commander said.

The explosion went off near a United Nations school in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.

A bystander, Nabil Abdel Hadi, said he heard the blast, followed by ambulances evacuating casualties from the area.

Two children were killed in the explosion, said Dr Haidar Al-Kidre at Nasser Hospital in the nearby town of Khan Younis.