Hello and welcome to News Air from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez.

And we're going to begin today in Gaza, where at least 50 people have been killed as Israel continues its bombardment of the territory,

even as its negotiators work on a possible ceasefire and hostage-release deal with Hamas.

Among the casualties, 15 Palestinians, mostly children and women,

killed by an Israeli airstrike while they were queuing for a clinic in Daryl Bala in the centre of the territory.

There is video circulating on social media of the immediate aftermath of the strike,

and it makes, as you can imagine, for distressing viewing.

Israeli military said later it was targeting a Hamas fighter who took part in the October

the 7th attacks.

In a statement, it added, the IDF regrets any harm to

uninvolved individuals and operates to minimise harm as much as possible. That's not the view of

the UN Children's Agency. It said in a statement of its own that it was appalled by what had

happened, adding that the killing of families trying to access life-saving aid was unconscionable.

The clinic is run by a UNICEF partner agency, a private NGO based in the US called Project Hope.

I've been speaking to its CEO, Rabi Torbe.

I mean, it was quite shocking at 7.15 this morning.

We had patients lined up in front of our clinic waiting to get

care. Most of them are women and children, and then a drone attacked in front of the clinic

and killed 15 people, including 10 children and two women. So we were devastated, we were shocked,

we're angry. This thing should not happen. It shouldn't happen anywhere. It shouldn't continue to happen in Gaza. Israel says it was

targeting a Hamas militant who took part in the October the 7th attacks. I mean, is there any

justification for this sort of incident?

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