Israeli Navy in beach slaughter of women and children

Friday afternoon , sandy Beit Lahiya beach , the exams are over, it's a holiday , it's hot on the beach, then ... Israeli naval gunboats killed at least 10 Palestinian civilians and wounded about 40 others as they relaxed , women , children ...

Lt-Gen Dan Halutz, the Israeli chief of staff, ordered an end to the shelling from land and sea, which had continued throughout the day allegedly as some form of demented retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire into the western Negev. The army apologised for the incident, saying it "regretted the attack on innocent people".. but hours later Israeli jets made sonic booms in the air over Gaza.

Gaza journalist Sami Yousef was at the beach ... the BBC takes up his report ..
There were people lying on the ground badly injured, crying. There were remains scattered along the beach.

Three children were there, two with severe deep cuts in their heads.

One girl was just screaming, crying out for her father: 'Dad, my dad.'

It was a terrible scene, with blood everywhere. We could see a gunship in middle of sea, so we knew what had happened.

Ali Ralia, 48, his wife Raisa, 30, her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Hanadi and her 5-month-old toddler Haitham, and his daughters from a second wife Alia, 24, Elham, 15, and Sabrin, 4, died in the strike.

Pic shows how the last of the Gaza "settlers" enjoyed their last beach party - nobody shelled them with HE shells from the sea.