Family mourns boy killed by Israeli strike as he searched for bread

Ten-year-old Ashraf Mahmoud was looking food for his family when he was killed by an Israeli strike, after the country said it would end its Gaza blockade.

Doaa Al-Asouri kisses her dead son's blood-soaked head, tears streaming down her face.

“Forgive me, my love, for not feeding you,” Al-Asouri, 36, cries outside Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. “I wanted to feed you.”

She strokes 10-year-old Ashraf Wafi's hair Tuesday, the moment captured by NBC News’ crew on the ground in Gaza. Later, before the funeral, the child's father, Mahmoud, kisses his son’s feet, the white shroud stained with bright-red blood.

Ashraf's family told NBC News he had been on a mission to fetch bread from his aunt when an Israeli bomb killed the boy. Just a few hours earlier, Israel announced it would end a nearly three-month blockade and allow medicine and other vital supplies into the enclave after a blockade of nearly three months.

Loved ones grieve as they prepare to bury 10-year-old Ashraf Wafi after he was killed in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Tuesday. NBC NewsAshraf's family members mourn as they prepare to bury the 10-year-old. NBC NewsA spokesperson for the Israeli military’s Office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the [Palestinian] Territories (COGAT) told NBC News that a total of 93 trucks carrying humanitarian aid had been allowed into the enclave via the southern Kerem Shalom crossing. A handful of trucks carrying baby food were allowed into the enclave Monday.