Israel’s government is accusing the international community, particularly the United Nations, of ignoring the pain of Israeli victims.

Bombardment has grown fiercer across the territory, including areas where Palestinians are told to seek safety.

They criticize what they called a global failure to support women and girls who were raped, sexually assaulted and, in some cases, killed in the Hamas attack in Israel.

The expanded assault poses a deadly choice for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians – either stay in the path of Israeli forces or flee within southern Gaza with no guarantee of safety.

The grim discovery was a reminder of the harrowing civilian toll of Israel’s war to eradicate Hamas, a campaign that has spared neither hospitals nor children. Thousands have been killed.