"Within the series of Gaza wars stretching back to 2008, the current one is unprecedented both for the number of people killed and for the indiscriminateness of the killing," he adds.

Women and children account for nearly 70 percent of all deaths reported in Gaza even though most combatants are men — an
“extraordinary statistic,” Rick Brennan, the regional emergency director for the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean
office, said at an event this month.