Israel’s Bank of Targets in Gaza: Over 270 Palestinian Children Killed in Attacks Since US-backed Ceasefire

Gaza (QNN)- Over 270 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since the start of the so-called US-backed ceasefire, as Israel continues to heavily bombard the enclave and deliberately target children.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 272 children were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip as of August 16, while another 1,174 were injured. Among the victims were also 135 women, 39 elders and 819 men.

Since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025, Israeli forces have killed 1,266 Palestinians in Gaza. Children account for 21.5 percent of the total death toll.

Apartment buildings, markets, vehicles, and cafés have continued to come under attack. In some cases, families received displacement orders only minutes before their homes were bombed, while many others received no warning at all.

United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk condemned Israel’s attacks in the Gaza Strip, saying that “the unrelenting pattern of killings” reflects Israel’s “sweeping impunity”.

“Palestinians are still being killed and injured in what is left of their homes, shelters and tents of displaced families, on the streets, in vehicles, at a medical facility and a classroom,” Turk said.

“We mourn as Gaza reaches yet another tragic milestone …  Thousands more people who were told the worst was over are still burying their loved ones,” said Fikr Shalltoot, Gaza director at Medical Aid for Palestinians.

Israeli forces continue to commit genocide against Palestinians by deliberately targeting children in the Gaza Strip, an independent United Nations Commission of Inquiry has found.

In a report published in June, an independent United Nations Commission of Inquiry — which last year concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza — found that Israeli forces continue to commit genocide against Palestinians by deliberately targeting children in the Gaza Strip.

It said that Israeli assaults have continued causing “unprecedented death, injury and trauma” to Palestinian children.

In August,  the United Nations children’s agency said at least 300 children have been killed in Gaza in the roughly 300 days since a so-called “ceasefire” was announced on October 10, 2025 – an average of one child a day.

Hundreds more have been wounded, many severely, UNICEF said in a statement. “A ceasefire that leaves an average of one child dead each and every day is failing children,” said Edouard Beigbeder, UNICEF regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.

“Children in Gaza are still waiting for the end to the violence they were promised.”

In one strike in western Gaza City on August 2, residents recovered the remains of an unborn baby from the rubble after the attack killed a pregnant woman, her husband and their five-year-old son.

More than 64,000 children were killed or injured in Gaza between Oct. 7, 2023 and Oct. 7, 2025, according to the UN. 

Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF, said it has been “over 1,000 days since Israel's genocide in Gaza began, and the collective punishment of Palestinians continues to this day. Amidst a so-called ceasefire, the world has normalised seeing Palestinians being maimed and killed daily in their tents, in hospitals, and on the street.”

It added, “This is not a ceasefire.”