TEHRAN - The Israeli military has staged fresh airstrikes on civilians in the Gaza Strip, prompting a top UN agency to condemn the Israeli occupation forces for continuing ‘’to intentionally starve and kill civilians’’.

For the 346th day since the war on the Gaza Strip began, the Israeli occupation forces continued to commit genocidal war against Gazans, conducting airstrikes and ground assaults on various areas.

In the southern part of the Strip, the occupation regime’s attacks focused on Rafah, where Israeli artillery shelled the northern and western parts of the city, accompanied by the firing of illumination bombs.

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) invaded an area, west of al-Mawasi (an Israeli declared safe-zone), and opened fire towards refugee camps.

Residential buildings in the Saudi neighborhood, west of Rafah, were demolished, while artillery shelling targeted areas in the city center and its eastern parts.

An Israeli attack on a residential house in the northern part of Rafah killed at least several people, and injured others, according to Gaza's civil defense.

Israeli attacks also extended to the central part of the Gaza Strip, where the IOF committed a massacre near the al-Qassam Cemetery in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least ten people and wounding almost two dozen others, some of whom left in critical condition.

The occupation army targeted northwestern Nuseirat with artillery shelling and demolished residential buildings in the northeastern part of the al-Bureij camp, which was also hit by an Israeli airstrike.

In the Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City in the northern part of the enclave, Israeli airstrikes targeted a house, killing at least five people and injuring several others.

Palestinian officials say they have identified the bodies of nearly 20 people, including five women and four children, massacred in Israeli airstrikes.

Residential buildings in the neighborhood were also demolished, coinciding with heavy gunfire by the IOF in southwestern Gaza City.

The new casualties have increased the death toll in Gaza to 41,226, with 95,413 others injured, since October 7 last year. These are the figures published by the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Many victims remain trapped under the rubble and in the streets, as rescue and civil defense teams are unable to reach them as a result of ongoing Israeli shelling and the ever-growing level of debris.

On Monday, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which is the leading United Nations entity in the field of human rights, strongly condemned the Israeli military for continuing ‘’to intentionally starve and kill civilians’’.

“This horrendous situation continues despite provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) aimed at preventing acts of genocide in Gaza and the illegal occupation of Gaza,” OHCHR stated.

The UN Human Rights agency also decried Israeli measures to prevent parties from documenting rights abuses being committed against Palestinian in the blockaded enclave.

“There is literally no place left for human rights defenders and civil society actors to continue documenting the litany of human rights violations to which Israel is subjecting the people of the Gaza Strip,” OHCHR added.

The Gaza Media Office has warned of a humanitarian disaster for displaced Palestinians in the Strip, pointing out that 74 percent of the tents used for displaced people are no longer suitable for use.