'Dud' Israeli shell kills 2 in Gaza

The blast killed Ayman Abu Jebbeh and Abdullah Abu Asr, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.

 

The shell exploded in the Shejaiya neighbourhood, which lies on the edge of Gaza City and was subjected to some of the heaviest Israeli shelling during the July-August conflict.

 

Full details of the incident were not immediately available. 

 

The war ended with a truce on August 26. It killed more than 2,140 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and 73 on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers.

 

It caused a vast amount of destruction to homes and infrastructure, leaving more than 100,000 Palestinians homeless in the long term, according to the UN. -AFP