Save the Children said the attacks come less than a week after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to immediately halt its offensive in Rafah, reports Al Jazeera.
The aid group said the 66 victims included many children and women and called for urgent action to protect civilians in Rafah and across the Gaza Strip.
“What more evidence do leaders need to show there is absolutely nowhere safe for children and families in Gaza?” said Xavier Joubert, Save the Children’s country director in the occupied Palestinian territory.
“They are permanently, constantly, fleeing for their lives, from one danger zone to another. And they’re not fleeing randomly – they’re going to the areas that Israel directed them to go to ‘for their own safety’. Then they are being attacked,” Joubert said.
“For those who haven’t yet been hit by explosive weapons fired directly into civilian areas, they are suffering the slow, agonizing effects of starvation. Children’s mental and physical health is being pushed beyond breaking point, as they suffer unimaginable mental harm from the violence, serious physical injuries, including the loss of body parts, and the loss of families, homes, and their schools,” he added.
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