'Targeting of Palestinian Children Has Not Stopped': Independent UN Investigator Sounds Alarm

Mass “Unchilding” and “Forgetting” of Palestinian Children

Image by mohammed al bardawil. There is no shortage of things that should astonish us about the West’s indifference to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, but the treatment of children stands apart. In ordinary life, care for children is the deepest moral reflex we have: parents structure their days around it, laws and institutions exist to enforce it, and even distant or imagined threats to our children are enough to produce panic, outrage, and decisive…

Around 2% of Gaza’s child population killed by Israeli security forces : UN report

What began as a response to the terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, has prolonged into a nearly three-year-long aggression resulting in over 73,000 deaths and about 1.8 lakh injuries in the Gaza Strip. Children accounted for 30% of these casualties and 26% of the injuries.

Vijay Prashad: When Children Are the Target

The implications of U.N. inquiry into the Israeli military’s deliberate targeting of children reach far beyond Gaza. They raise fundamental questions about the future of international law itself. By Vijay Prashad Z Network The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry…Read more →

UN finds ‘overwhelming’ scale of children killed in Gaza

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. A recent United Nations report has detailed serious allegations of Israel deliberately targeting Palestinian children during the conflict since October 2023. The report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem […]

'Targeting of Palestinian children has not stopped': Independent UN investigator sounds alarm

Independent UN investigators are calling for action after releasing a report detailing what they call “deliberate killing of Palestinian children” by Israel. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry says that since October 7, 2023, the "essence of childhood" has been "destroyed" in Gaza and the West Bank. Speaking with FRANCE 24, Commission Chair Srinivasan Muralidhar said that among the vast evidence collected were testimonies from d…

UN Commission Chief: Israel Uses Palestinian Babies As ‘Special Targets’

By Justin K.P. | The Dissident | June 30, 2026  S. Muralidhar, a United Nations Commissioner on Human Rights, who led the recent UN inquiry into Israel’s killing of children in Gaza, revealed that IDF terrorists routinely target Palestinian babies as specific and intentional targets. In an interview with RT India, he said, “When you shoot a 10-day-old baby breastfeeding on his mother… through his head, you can by no means label such a baby as an…