A spokeswoman for Save the Children told Al Jazeera that Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip were continuing to kill and maim children.

“There’s no place in Gaza that can offer respite to civilians, including children, and there is no place in Gaza that is safe,” Alexandra Saieh said from Washington, DC.

“We are continuing to see children being killed in the most horrific ways imaginable. We’ve seen children – in the last few weeks and over the course of the last nine months – dismembered, their limbs are ripped off of them by explosive weapons, they are being crushed by falling rubble… it is just relentless.”

Saieh noted that Save the Children estimates that more than 20,000 children in Gaza are unaccounted for.

“This includes children who are separated from their families and more than 4,000 who are under the rubble and are presumed dead. It also includes children who are buried in unmarked graves and children who are detained and disappeared by Israeli forces. That comes on top of more than 14,000 children who have been killed and thousands more who have been maimed,” she said.