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Palestinian parents of Mohammed al-Houm, a 14-year-old boy killed by Israeli troops on Friday during the demonstration on the Gaza-Gaza border, mourn when relatives transport his body to the family's home during his funeral at Bureij, refugee camp, center of the Gaza Strip, Saturday, September 29, 2018. (Khalil Hamra / Associated Press)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The latest news on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (still local):
3:20 p.m.
Officials from the Islamic Hamas group are traveling to Egypt as part of another bid to negotiate to ease the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip.
Hussam Badran, a member of the militant group's political bureau, said the delegation would arrive in Cairo in a few hours.
The leaders, whom he has not named, will use to "put an end to the suffering of our people in Gaza as an urgent mission."
The talks will focus on a ceasefire agreement that Hamas hopes to ease the blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt when Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007.
Earlier this week, a Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, said Egypt's efforts to negotiate an agreement with Israel to lift the closure had been disrupted.
Since March, Hamas has staged protests along Gaza's perimeter fence with Israel, accelerating them recently.
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3:10 p.m.
Thousands of people attended the funeral of seven Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire on the deadliest day of demonstrations aimed at blocking the border in Gaza for several months.
Among those killed near Gaza's perimeter fence were two boys aged 11 and 14. A Gaza rights group says the 11-year-old is the youngest killed by Israeli gunfire during protests.
Jamie McGoldrick, a senior UN humanitarian official in the region, said Saturday that he was "deeply saddened" by the loss of life. He added that parties must ensure that children are not targeted for violence or exposed to violence.
At the protest on Friday, thousands of people gathered near the fence and hundreds of them raped her in one area. Amateur videos showed protesters kissing Israeli soil at the sound of repeated gunshots.
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11:55
Hundreds of people attended the funeral of an 11-year-old Palestinian boy, apparently the youngest killed by Israeli gunfire during six months of demonstrations along Gaza's perimeter fence.
Nasser Musabeh was one of seven protesters that Gaza health officials said were killed by Israeli troops near the fence on Friday.
The demonstrations began in March and have recently accelerated after the last failed negotiation to negotiate a relaxation of the blockade of the border established by Gaza for eleven years. Israel and Egypt imposed the closure after the capture of Gaza by Islamist militant Hamas in 2007.
Friday was the deadliest day of protests since mid-May, when 60 Palestinians were killed.
The health authorities in Gaza first stated that Musabeh was 12 years old. However, his family gave his date of birth on December 29, 2006.
Another 11-year-old had already been killed in unclear circumstances during protests with a blunt object.
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8:30
Palestinian health officials said Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians, including two children, and injured dozens of others as Hamas leaders in Gaza stepped up demonstrations along the fence.
Friday marked the deadliest day in recent weeks as thousands of Palestinians gathered in Israel in response to calls by Hamas, the militant group that has been controlling Gaza since the PA was registered in 2007.
Two of the victims were children between the ages of 12 and 14, Gaza's health ministry said, adding that all the dead were shot and wounded. At least 90 other protesters were injured by gunfire, officials said.
Hamas has been conducting weekly demonstrations since March, but has accelerated them in recent weeks towards near-daily events, calling for the end of a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed after Hamas took control of Gaza. in 2007.
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