Findings by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights that 36 Israeli attacks on Gaza had killed only women and children further confirms a pattern previously identified, Al Jazeera cites Palestinian rights group Al-Haq as saying.

“Israel is purposely targeting” women and children in Gaza, Al-Haq said, adding that both it and the UN’s international commission of inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory and East Jerusalem had reached such a conclusion.

“Such a calculated effort to exterminate women, boys, girls and even infants, has not been witnessed in any other modern conflict,” Al-Haq said in a post on social media.

“While being targeted with heavy weaponry, they are forced to endure a total blockade on humanitarian aid — now for a 2nd month in a row,” the group said.