BUREIJ (Gaza Strip), April 11: A 10-year-old boy was among six Palestinians killed on Friday as Israeli tanks and helicopters opened fire inside the Gaza Strip after Israel vowed to retaliate for a border attack.

Before the operation was launched in central Gaza, two Hamas militants were killed in an air strike.

At least 25 more Palestinians were wounded in Friday’s incursion, including three children who suffered severe wounds, medics said.

Riyad Owayssi, 10, stood with dozens of children near the tanks, outside the Bureij refugee camp, when he was fatally hit, medics said.

Four other Palestinians were killed, including three teenagers who were in a house hit by Israeli tank fire. Militants had targeted the troops from outside the house but fled before the Israelis opened fire, witnesses said.

A sixth Palestinian was killed in a later air strike on Bureij, medics and security sources said.

The strike, which was confirmed by the army, plunged several districts of Gaza City into darkness, residents said, after an Israeli missile struck a generator.—AFP