Friday 11 July 2014 16.29 The United Nations human rights chief has voiced serious doubts that Israeli's military operation against Gaza complied with international law banning the targeting of civilians.
International law requires Israel to take all measures to ensure that its attacks are proportional, distinguish between military and civilian objects, and avoid civilian casualties, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said.
She made the statement after two more people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza, bringing the toll in four days of violence to 100, medics said.
Health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said two men were travelling in a municipality car in the Bureij area with a third man, who was seriously wounded in the strike.
Israeli air strikes killed six Palestinians in Gaza overnight, according to medical sources.
Five Palestinians, including a woman and a seven-year-old child, died when a house in Rafah in southern Gaza was hit.
An air strike around an hour before killed a 33-year-old man in Gaza City's Tel el-Hawa neighbourhood.
According to Mr Qudra, around 95 Gazans have been killed since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge early on Tuesday to halt cross-border rocket fire by militant groups.
Ms Pillay said: "We have received deeply disturbing reports that many of the civilian casualties, including of children, occurred as a result of strikes on homes."
"Such reports raise serious doubt about whether the Israeli strikes have been in accordance with international humanitarian law and international human rights law," the statement added.
Since the start of the operation, Gaza militants have fired 407 mortars and rockets that struck Israel, while another 118 rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defence system, an Israeli army spokeswoman said this morning.
It is the deadliest violence since a November 2012 conflict in Gaza, and militants have been firing rockets at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv for the first time since then.
No Israelis have been killed from the rocket fire.
Israel has also authorised the call-up of 40,000 reservist troops, as it threatens a ground operation to stamp out rocket fire from Gaza militants.
Elsewhere, two rockets were fired into northern Israel from Lebanon this morning. The Israeli army said it responded with artillery fire.
Southern Lebanon is a stronghold of Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim group that battled Israel seven years ago.
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