Three Palestinians have been killed and several injured in an incident where an Israeli dud went off in the Gaza Strip.
Gaza emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said the incident happened on Friday in the Shijaiyah neighborhood, eastern Gaza City.
Shijaiyah witnessed the heaviest Israeli shelling during the war Tel Aviv imposed on the besieged Palestinian territory.
Human rights groups warn that unexploded ordnance left over from the Israeli war pose a serious threat to the safety of Palestinians in Gaza, especially children.
Last month, six people were killed in a similar explosion.
More than 2,140 Palestinians, over 500 of them children, lost their lives during the July Israeli military aggression that lasted nearly two months.
The war, which caused a vast amount of destruction to homes and infrastructure, left more than 100,000 Palestinians homeless, according to estimates by the UN.
DB/HSN
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