According to the emergency services the air strikes unleashed by Israel in Gaza have claimed 177 lives and caused injury to 1,280 people over seven days.
Even more shocking, however, is the revelation of UN spokesman, according to which, a quarter of the victims were children.

On Monday, five Palestinians were killed in the bombing and two other people-one man and one-woman succumbed to their wounds.

A teenager aged 17 was killed by a rocket while driving a moped in the city of Khan Younes, south of the Palestinian enclave, while in the same area a 37-year old lost his life when a rocket fell amid in a group of men.