GENEVA - The United Nations on July 21 condemned intensifying Israeli military attacks in Gaza that it said had killed at least 57 Palestinians, including six children, in the past week.

A ceasefire agreed in October remains in place between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, but it has not halted the violence in Gaza.

“Nine months after the announcement of a ceasefire, still, nowhere is safe for Palestinians in Gaza,” UN rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan told reporters in Geneva.

He decried that “the Israeli military has intensified its attacks in Gaza in recent days, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians”.

The Israeli attacks had killed “at least 57 Palestinians, including six children and eight women” from July 13 to July 20, Kheetan said.

The Israeli army has in recent days announced a series of strikes in the Gaza Strip targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad members who it said were involved in the Oct 7, 2023 attack on Israel, that set off the war, or the holding of hostages after.

It also reported striking a weapons depot, an arms manufacturing site, and a rocket-launching position, saying that this infrastructure posed a threat to its troops.

Kheetan said the strikes had targeted residential buildings, at least one tent sheltering internally displaced people, and other crowded areas, with 34 of the victims “killed far away from the Israeli-imposed yellow line”.

In attacks on July 17 and July 18, for instance, he said the UN rights offic...