At least 150 Palestinian children killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza: Rights group

At least 150 Palestinian children were killed in renewed Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a Geneva-based rights group said.

The Israeli army pounded the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing at least 404 people, injuring hundreds, and breaking a ceasefire agreement that took effect on Jan. 19.

Images emerging from Gaza showed that the majority of the victims were civilians, including women and children, whose homes were bombed during the night.

“The intentional killing of large numbers of people was evident in the Israeli attacks,” the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement.

“Any attempt to disguise these crimes as security concerns or military necessities is nothing more than blatant deception meant to conceal the crime of genocide,” it added.

The rights group said the international community’s inaction regarding “Israel’s heinous crimes” in Gaza over the past 18 months “is not only a disgraceful failure but also a de facto endorsement of further massacres and genocide.”