New Israeli strikes have killed over a dozen people, including seven children, in the besieged territory as the regime is pressing ahead with its bloody military onslaught against Palestinians.
Gaza's civil defense agency said the bodies of 10 people, including seven children, were brought to the hospital following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the al-Farra family home in central Khan Younis.
Witnesses reported continuous and intensive Israeli tank fire in the city.
Moreover, one Palestinian was killed and four others were wounded following an aerial attack on a group of civilians in Rafah.
In central Gaza, Israeli drones struck a group of civilians in Deir el-Balah, following which a number of casualties were transferred to the al-Aqsa Hospital.
Two more people killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a group of civilians in the al-Atatra area in the northern city of Beit Lahia.
On Friday morning, the Israeli military released an “urgent and serious” evacuation notice for residents living in various neighborhoods east of Gaza City.
This infant lost her arm and is now at Baptist Hospital after Israeli forces pounded their home in Gaza's Shuja'iyya neighborhood.
The United Nations on Friday said its analysis of 36 recent Israeli strikes in Gaza showed only women and children were killed and decried the human cost of the war.
Spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani cited an April 6 strike on a residential building of the Abu Issa family in Deir al-Balah, which reportedly killed one girl, four women, and one four-year-old boy.
Even the areas where Palestinians were being instructed to go in the expanding number of Israeli "evacuation orders" were also being subjected to attacks, she said.
Israel has said its troops are seizing "large areas" in Gaza and incorporating them into buffer zones cleared of their inhabitants.
The UN rights office warned that expanding Israeli evacuation orders are resulting in the "forcible transfer" of people into ever-shrinking spaces in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
"Let us be clear, these so-called evacuation orders are actually displacement orders, leading to displacement of the population of Gaza into ever shrinking spaces," Shamdasani said.
"The permanently displacing the civilian population within occupied territories amounts to forcible transfer, which is a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and it is a crime against humanity."
Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Shamsadani said between March 18 and April 9, there were some 224 incidents of Israeli strikes on residential buildings and tents for internally displaced people.
"In some 36 strikes about which the UN Human Rights Office corroborated information, the fatalities recorded so far were only women and children," she said.
"Overall, a large percentage of fatalities are children and women, according to information recorded by our Office," she added.
UN: 12,500 Gaza patients still in need of medical evacuation
On Thursday, UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said there are still about 12,500 patients in Gaza who urgently need to be evacuated for medical treatment.
Haq urged that medical institutions be empowered to conduct these evacuations through all accessible crossings and corridors.
In a press briefing held in New York, Haq reiterated the urgent need to reopen border crossings to facilitate the entry of vital supplies into Gaza, cautioning that the current resources are depleting rapidly as the humanitarian crisis worsens.
According to Haq, more than 60,000 Palestinian children in Gaza are experiencing malnutrition, particularly as fuel and resources in community-operated charity kitchens are quickly running out.
Numerous international and local organizations have warned of the dire repercussions of intensifying the Israeli blockade, forecasting a potential escalation into widespread famine affecting the Palestinian population.
More than 50,800 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza in Israel's military onslaught since October 2023.
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