UN inquiry: Israel deliberately targeting Palestinian children in genocide, war crimes

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• Israeli forces continued to use high-payload munitions and weapons with wide-area effects in densely populated residential areas despite mounting child casualties, the commission said. “This indicates that such attacks, which killed children in such high numbers, were intentional,” it said.

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• New UN inquiry: Israel 'deliberately' killed Palestinian children, resulting in genocide.

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• In Tuesday’s follow-up report, they said the scale and nature of Israeli military operations had continued, resulting in the "unprecedented" death, injury and trauma of Palestinian children.

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• Israel’s targeting of neonatal and maternity care centres in Gaza have directly harmed the survival of newborns and Palestinians’ reproductive future.

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• Israel has always pointed to the fact that Hamas embedded its fighters and military infrastructure in homes, hospitals , schools and mosques.

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• Children made up a large share of the people killed during the war.

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• The UN inquiry said that during the first two years of the Israeli assault, at least 20,179 children were killed and 44,143 injured “as a direct result of the hostilities in Gaza”.

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• ISRAEL has committed genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity across Palestine , a UN commission of inquiry has said.

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• A doctor who visited Gaza on a medical mission is quoted in the report, saying: “Based on the clustering of injuries and the targeted body parts, I assess that the Israeli soldiers have been deliberately shooting teenage boys in a game of target practice – a different body part being targeted on different days…

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• "The commission found that much of the harm suffered by Palestinian children was not incidental but intended to destroy the existence of the Palestinians in Gaza as a group.

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• More than 1,000 people have been killed since the ceasefire agreement.

  according to TheJournal.ie

• Among the children killed were at least 5,031 under the age of 5, including about 1,029 infants under 1 year old, according to the report.

  according to Ynetnews

• Her reporting has been recognised nationally, earning her the 2021 Democracy’s Watchdogs Award for Student Investigative Reporting and a nomination for the 2021 Walkley Student Journalist of the Year Award.

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• The report also makes reference to its 2024 findings on “violations and abuses against Israeli childen committed by the military wing of Hamas”.

  according to Michael West Media

• The report found that Israel has targeted Palestinian children in Gaza in two distinct ways: directly […] By The Canary

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• Israel has always pointed to the fact that Hamas embedded its fighters and military infrastructure in homes, hospitals , schools and…

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• Israeli forces continued to use high-payload munitions and weapons with wide-area effects in densely populated residential areas despite…

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• In Tuesday’s follow-up report, they said the scale and nature of Israeli military operations had continued, resulting in the…

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• Israel’s targeting of neonatal and maternity care centres in Gaza have directly harmed the survival of newborns and Palestinians’…

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• New UN inquiry: Israel 'deliberately' killed Palestinian children, resulting in genocide.

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