Key points
- UN has decried impact of ongoing Israeli attacks across Gaza on civilians
- A large percentage of fatalities are children and women in Gaza: UN
- 224 Israeli strikes on buildings, tents were reported from 18 March and 9 April 2025: UN
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations on Friday decried the impact of ongoing Israeli attacks across Gaza on civilians, finding that “a large percentage of fatalities are children and women”.
The AFP cited the UN human rights office report as saying “Between 18 March and 9 April 2025, there were some 224 incidents of Israeli strikes on residential buildings and tents for internally displaced people,” the UN human rights office said.
It added that “in some 36 strikes about which the UN Human Rights Office corroborated information, the fatalities recorded so far were only women and children”.
Residential building
The OCHA stated that dozens of people, including at least eight children, were killed in Gaza City on Wednesday after an Israeli strike hit a residential building. Many others are still missing under the rubble. The agency stressed that civilians must be protected and should never be a target.
AFP reported that Gaza’s civil defence agency said that a pre-dawn Israeli air strike on Friday killed 10 members of the same family, including seven children, in the southern city of Khan Yunis.
“Ten people, including seven children, were brought to the hospital as martyrs following an Israeli air strike that targeted the al-Farra family home in central Khan Yunis,” AFP cited agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal as saying. Witnesses reported continuous and intensive Israeli tank fire in Khan Yunis.
More disease and deaths
The civil defence agency also reported two people killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a group of civilians in the Al-Atatra area in the northern city of Beit Lahia, AFP reported.
World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned of more disease and deaths due to Israel’s blockade of aid entering into Gaza where over 10,000 people need medical evacuation abroad.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said that at least 50,886 Palestinians are confirmed dead and 115,875 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza.
