India, April 29 -- A 9-year-old boy was killed on Tuesday by Israeli fire in southern Gaza, Nasser Hospital said.

The hospital said Adel al-Najjar was collecting firewood in a roundabout in Khan Younis city when Israeli forces shot him about 400 meters (1,312 feet) west of the Yellow Line separating Israeli-controlled areas from the rest of Gaza.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment.

An Associated Press video shows two of the boy's siblings crying over him on a stretcher at the hospital's morgue. One knelt on his body and kissed his cheeks.

"What is the guilt of those children," a woman said during the boy's funeral. "God is plaguing you, Israel."

The boy's younger brother was killed a month ago, also while collecting fir...