Ramallah, (PIC)-- The Defense for Children / Palestine Section has said that 30 Palestinian children were killed in the ongoing Israeli occupation forces' air raids on the Gaza Strip since Saturday.
The DFC said in a statement on Monday that its researchers were currently investigating all incidents in which children were the victims. It predicted that the number of causalities among children would increase as the children constitute 56% of the Gaza population.
The statement attributed the increased number of casualties in lines of children to the fact that the first major Israeli air strikes coincided with the return of school children to their homes, a thing that has been surely known by those who planned the strikes.
Israel's indifference towards the lives of civilians reflects its disrespect to its commitment as an occupation power and to rules and laws of war, the DFC said, adding that the raids killed seven students of an UNRWA professional training center in central Gaza while waiting for the bus to take them home.
Human rights organizations and media reports estimated that more than 360 Palestinians were killed in the air raids while around 1700 others were injured many of them in critical conditions.
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