According to the UN's Briefing today there was a minimum of 62 women and children dead.

That doesn't include any men that were victims as opposed to combatants. At least some of the victims are reaching hospitals that can actually treat them. Israel, while hoping to be compassionate in allowing UN supplies to reach the people of Palestine, is faced with security issues for their soldiers, any aid workers as well as the people of Israel.

I can't help believe that an emergency evacuation would prevent more victims and rescue that many more, rather than allowing them to confuse aggression by Hamas with a real defense of their homeland. If the United Nations could find a way to convince people to leave the region where Israel is concentrating their efforts it could provide a better strategy.

Wounded Palestinians being treated in the Gaza Strip