The 2014 Gaza war beach bombing incidents refers to two incidents that took place during the 2014 Gaza War on 9 and 16 July. In the first incident, Israeli missiles killed 9 youths while they were following the 2014 World Cup series on TV; in the second, 4 boys were killed by Israeli naval fire while playing on a beach. According to an Israeli investigation, the second was a 'tragic mistake'. The latter attack was conducted in front of hotels that sheltered western journalists, several of whom witnessed the Israeli shelling. Several eyewitnesses have remarked that, even at a distance, it was clear that the targets of the Israeli attack were children. The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, reviewing the evidence, found that the IDF had failed in its obliga