Israeli airstrikes killed at least 42 Palestinians, including eight children, in Gaza on Sunday, and a car bomb blast injured several police officers in East Jerusalem on the seventh day of an unprecedented clashes, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. CICR).
“The intensity of this conflict is something we have never seen before, with relentless airstrikes in densely populated Gaza and missiles hitting major cities in Israel,” said Robert Martini, the Red Cross’s director general.
The CICR called on the UN Security Council to “exercise maximum influence to put an end to hostilities”.
This is the heaviest daily report since the beginning of the violence in Gaza, a poor pocket of two million people under Israeli blockade for the past 15 years: since May 10, a total of 192 Palestinians have been killed, including at least 58 children and more than 1,200. have been injured, according to a recent Palestinian report.
