Israel's military said Friday it would investigate unanticipated civilian casualties in a strike the previous day on an Islamic Jihad target in the Gaza Strip.
"According to the information available to the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) at the time of the strike, no civilians were expected to be harmed," the army said, after eight members of the same Palestinian family were killed.
"The IDF is investigating the harm caused to civilians by the strike," it said in a statement to AFP.
Israel hit the home of Rasmi Abu Malhous, who it described as an Islamic Jihad commander, early on Thursday before a truce between the sides went into force.
The strike killed him, five children and two women, according to the Palestinian health ministry in the strip, where the Islamist Hamas movement rules.
Islamic Jihad, the second most powerful Palestinian militant group in Gaza after Hamas, said Malhous was "known as a person affiliated with Islamic Jihad but he was not a commander".
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