An Israeli drone strike has killed two Palestinian children in southern Gaza, a hospital reported.

The two brothers died when a drone struck close to a school sheltering displaced people near Beni Suhaila , staff at Nasser Hospital said.

The boys, Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, eight, were gathering firewood for their wheelchair-bound father, according to their uncle, Mohamed Abu Assi.

Image: Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, eight, were killed in a drone strike.

He said: "They are children...what did they do? They do not have missiles or bombs, they went to gather wood for their father so he can start a fire."

At the funeral, the boys' father wept over one of his children, whose white shroud was peeled back to show his face.

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