Two Palestinian children cousins aged 7 and 10 were killed Tuesday evening in an explosion of an object of the Israeli army remnants near their tent home in a Bedouin encampment in the Negev.
Arab48.com news website reported that both children who were identified as Mahmoud and Omar Abu Qwaider 10 and 7 years old respectively were killed in their home tent in al-Zarnouk village in the Negev which was occupied in 1948.
Israeli police said that the two children were apparently playing with the object when it exploded resulting in their death. Investigation in the incident is ongoing the police added.