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**Palestinians killed on Gaza beach **
Six people, including three children, have been killed by Israeli shells which hit a beach in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials say. They say at least 25 people were wounded in the shelling. The Israeli military says it has halted all shelling of Gaza and has launched an inquiry into whether ground-based artillery could have been involved. Three other people were also killed in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza on Friday, Palestinians said. The incidents come a day after senior Palestinian official Jamal Abu Samhadana was killed in an Israeli air strike in Rafah, the southern Gaza. Samhadana - the founder of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) - was buried in Rafah on Friday, with thousands of mourners pledging to avenge his death. Samhadana was one of Israel’s most wanted men in Gaza, and his group has been blamed for a series of missile attacks on Israel.
Devastation
**Palestinian officials say the six people killed on the Gaza Strip beach included two women as well as the three children. The first television pictures revealed a terrible scene, the BBC’s Alan Johnston says. At least four figures lay unconscious on the ground, possibly dead, our correspondent says. One of victims is a middle-aged woman, another is a child. A little further away, a man was lying on a sand dune, perhaps fatally injured, while a child stood looking on in utter horror, our correspondent says. He says that it looks very much as if this was a family enjoying their Friday afternoon off on the beach when disaster struck. **
Israeli reaction
An Israeli army spokesman said Chief of Staff Dan Halutz had ordered an immediate stop to all artillery shelling of Gaza while an investigation was carried out into the beach shelling. The spokesman told the BBC initial findings suggested the shell which killed the six people could not have been fired from an Israeli naval vessel or from the air. He said the army was investigating the possibility that it may have been fired by ground-based artillery. For many months, the Israelis have been pounding away at open areas such as fields and orchards in an effort to prevent Palestinian militants using them to fire their home-made missile into crudely made missiles into nearby Israeli territory.