Three Israeli airstrikes in the central and southern Gaza Strip in April killed 44 Palestinian civilians, including 32 children, Amnesty International said today, calling on the International Criminal Court to launch a “war crimes” investigation.

According to the non-governmental organization, the three bombings took place on April 16 in the Al Magazi refugee camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, and on April 19 and 20 in Rafah, in the south.

“These devastating bombardments decimated families and inhumanely took the lives of 32 children”, Erica Guevara-Rosas emphasizes in Amnesty’s announcement, emphasizing that the NGO’s investigation found “critical evidence of illegal attacks by the Israeli army”.

The non-governmental organization interviewed 17 survivors and eyewitnesses, visited a hospital where the wounded were being treated and photographed fragments of the ammunition used. In all three cases, he found “no evidence that there were military targets in or around the locations targeted by the Israeli military” and has received no answers to his questions.

Amnesty reports that the April 16 bombing in Al Maghazi hit a street where children were playing, killing 10 of them, aged between 4 and 15, as well as five men.

In Rafah, a bomb hit the home of Abu Radwan, a retired civil servant, on April 19, killing nine family members, including six children, according to the NGO.

On April 20, shelling destroyed the home of the Abdelal family in eastern Rafah, killing 20 people—16 children and four women—and injuring 4 other children.

“The International Criminal Court (ICC) should begin a war crimes investigation” regarding these three bombings, Amnesty says.

The war in the Gaza Strip broke out on October 7, triggered by an unprecedented raid by Hamas’ military arm into southern sectors of the Israeli territory, which killed more than 1,170 people, most of them civilians, according to a French count. Agency based on official Israeli data.

121 hostages are believed to be still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, but 37 of them are believed to be dead, according to the Israeli military.

In retaliation, Israel’s military has launched large-scale, devastating operations in the Palestinian enclave that have killed at least 35,984 people, the vast majority of them civilians, according to data from Hamas’ health ministry.