Guterres comments on the number of civilian casualties resulting from the devastating Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, and considers that “it is clear that there is an error in the method of carrying out military operations.” He says that "it is not in Israel's interest that a dire picture of tragic humanitarian needs appear on a daily basis."

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that the number of civilians martyred in the Gaza Strip clearly shows that “there is something wrong with Israeli military operations” in Gaza.

Guterres added, in statements to Reuters, that the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) “when one looks at the number of civilians killed in military operations, it necessarily becomes clear that there is something wrong.”

He added, "It is also important to make Israel realize that it is not in its interest to display a terrible daily picture of the tragic humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people. This does not support Israel before world public opinion."

Guterres compared the number of children killed in Gaza with the number of children killed in conflicts around the world, on which the Secretary-General reports annually.

“Every year, the maximum number of children killed by any of the actors in all the conflicts we witness is in the hundreds,” he said.

He added, "We have thousands of children killed in Gaza within a few days, which means that there is a clear error in the method of carrying out military operations."

The United Nations report on children and armed conflict includes a list aimed at exposing parties to conflicts in the hope of pushing them to implement measures to protect children.

This matter has been controversial for a long time, and diplomats said that Israel has exerted pressure in recent years in an attempt to remove it from this list.

Israel pledged to eliminate Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, after its militants killed 1,400 people and detained more than 240 in an attack on October 7. Since then, Israel has continued an air and ground attack on the besieged Strip.

For 33 days, the Israeli army has been waging a war on Gaza, during which it destroyed residential neighborhoods on top of their residents, killing 10,569 Palestinians, including 4,324 children and 2,823 women, and wounding 26,475.

Also, 163 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in the occupied West Bank, hundreds were injured, and 2,280 were arrested in the West Bank, according to official sources.