New Delhi, July 15 -- A grieving father in Gaza has spoken out after his young son was killed in an Israeli airstrike while trying to fetch water amid severe shortages in the war-torn region.

Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Ahmed said his son Abdullah had taken a few jerrycans on Sunday morning and headed to a water distribution point at the urban Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza- something he did regularly.

"That area was full of displaced families, people broken by the war and the siege. Abdullah was among the children waiting with empty stomachs and parched lips," he told a local journalist working with the BBC.

"Just as the children and other thirsty residents gathered, warplanes bombed the area without warning."

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