Women and children have reportedly been the main victims of the large-scale Israeli air strikes on the Gaza strip in the past two days.
Since the Saturday Israeli attacks on Gaza, the impoverished region has seen a gradual increase in women and children casualties, suggesting that Israel had made no distinction between civilian and military targets when it launched its closely timed missiles into heavily populated areas.
Schools, a television station as well as a mosque have been targeted as part of the Israeli military campaign against the Palestinians.
Emergency medical officials have asserted, according to Sky News, that a large number of the 800 victims consist of children, who were leaving school when the missiles were fired late Saturday and early Sunday.
4-year-old Ahmad Sinwar was killed while playing in the courtyard of his southern Gaza City home when the adjacent civil defense headquarters was bombed.
"I never expected that the civil defense headquarters would be considered a military target …What was the sin of my 4-year-old son?" said Ahmad's grief-stricken father, Reyad Sinwar.
The attacks come at a time when hospitals in Gaza had already had critically low supplies because of the Israeli-imposed siege on the coastal strip.
"We are treating people on the floor, in the corridors. We have no more space. We don't know who is here and what the priority is to treat," said a doctor at Shifa hospital, Gaza's main treatment center.
While beleaguered Gazans cowered under the shower of multiple strikes, Israeli citizens on the other side of the border championed and cheered what they believed to be an act of justice and revenge against the Hamas.
"I'm proud to be an Israeli today. I lend my full support to the commanders of the Israeli Defense Force in their campaign …I hope that their actions today help return peace to my town and the neighboring communities," said the Israeli mayor of Sderot, David Buskliah.
Israel attacked the impoverished strip on Saturday, leaving 230 people dead and more than 800 others in a critical state. The number of the Palestinian dead rose to at least 280 on Sunday.
