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NEGEV (Ma'an) -- Two Palestinian children were killed on Tuesday evening when an Israeli ordnance exploded in the Abu Qeidar area of the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Zarnouq in the Negev of southern Israel.

Locals told Ma’an that the device was left over from Israeli forces. The children were identified as Omar Ismail Abu Qweidar, 8, and his cousin Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Qeidar, 10.

The children were declared dead at the scene of the explosion.
An Israeli police spokesperson was not immediately available to comment on the incident.