They were queuing for food when the missile hit, and by the time the dust had settled, eight children, two women and five more civilians were gone.
No weapons, no warning, just another fifteen Palestinians killed while waiting for the most basic nourishment.
Since the end of May, almost 800 people in Gaza have been killed while trying to reach aid, a figure so horrific it no longer shocks those in power.
This is the reality now where starvation is punished and survival is political.
Israel’s defence minister has now proposed forcing every Palestinian into a single camp built on the ruins of Rafah, and legal experts are calling it what it is, a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.
Hospitals are collapsing.
Children are starving.
And yet, the UK Government remains silent.
Brendan O’Hara MP says that silence has become complicity.
“As war crimes against civilians and children in Gaza continued this week,” he said, “how much longer must this slaughter of innocence and genocidal assault continue until the UK Labour Government finally acts?”
He says most people watching feel powerless, but Westminster does not have that excuse.
“Most of us are forced to watch on feeling helpless and hopeless as children are bombed and shot in Palestine by the IDF,” he said.
“But that helplessness doesn’t extend to the UK Labour Government.”
“If they could muster just a shred of conviction and courage, they would have the power to act.”
The SNP is calling for two immediate steps, a complete halt to arms sales to Israel and the formal recognition of the state of Palestine.
Neither would bring back the dead, but both would show that Britain is no longer willing to look away.
O’Hara says this is the week to act, not the week to hide.
“After witnessing another week of slaughter,” he said, “the Labour Party could, and should, begin this new week by taking two concrete steps.”
“They should finally stop all arms sales to Israel and finally recognise the state of Palestine.”
It is a demand echoed across Europe.
Ireland, Spain and Norway have already recognised Palestine, and last week French President Emmanuel Macron told Parliament directly that the UK should follow.
“Working together in order to recognise the state of Palestine and to initiate this political momentum is the only path to peace,” Macron said, standing in Westminster Hall.
Yet the UK’s Foreign Secretary refused to offer a timeline.
He called it a “live situation” and left it at that.
Meanwhile, Scotland has offered more than words.
First Minister John Swinney has written to the Prime Minister, urging the UK to help transfer injured Palestinian children to Scottish hospitals for urgent care.
O’Hara says recognition of Palestine would be more than a diplomatic signal, it would be a moral stand.
“It would show we are prepared to protect and guarantee the right of the Palestinian people to their own homeland,” he said.
“And that all diplomatic levers will be used to prevent any plan that effectively proposes ethnic cleansing in Gaza.”
He says there is no truth in talk of a two-state solution unless both states are recognised.
“It is blindingly obvious that anyone claiming to support a two-state solution must back immediate recognition of Palestine,” he said.
“Otherwise their words ring hollow.”
If nothing changes this week, he says, the consequences will be historic.
“If Westminster stays sitting on its hands and fails to use the power it has to act,” he said, “then they will be totally complicit in giving the Netanyahu government impunity to commit week upon week of slaughter, even deadlier than the one Palestinians have just suffered.”
