GAZA: An Italian journalist, three Palestinian bomb disposal experts and two other people were killed in Gaza when unexploded munitions blew up, police said. The explosion was in Beit Lahiya, a town in the northern Gaza Strip.

Gaza’s police force said it was mourning the deaths of its three men: the head of the bomb squad, his deputy and another officer, killed when an Israeli shell detonated.

Italy’s foreign minister, Federica Mogherini, offered the government’s condolences to the family of journalist Simone Camilli.