유엔 보고서: 가자 아동 학살 진실 - Google Gemini
10세 아기가 어머니의 모유를 먹던 중 머리에 총격을 받았다. 탱크가 16세 소년을 치고 지나가 시신을 훼손했다. 이스라엘 군인들은 표적 맞히기 놀이를 하듯 십 대 소년들을 고의로 저격했다. 가자를 세계에서 어린이가 살기에 가장 위험한 곳으로 묘사한 끔찍한 유엔(UN)의 새 보고서에 나오는 단 세 개의 인용구다.
점령된 팔레스타인 영토에 관한 유엔 독립 국제조사위원회가 작성한 이 보고서는 이스라엘이 진행 중인 제노사이드(집단학살) 캠페인의 일환으로 어린이를 고의로 표적 삼았다고 고발한다. 이제 그 보고서의 일부를 읽어주겠다. 경고하건대, 이것은 듣기 쉬운 내용이 아니다. 하지만 기억해야 한다. 이 일은 미국의 무기로, 그리고 더 넓은 서구 세계의 공모 하에 자행되고 있다는 점을 말이다.
특히 영국은 이스라엘을 지원하기 위해 가자 상공에서 매일 정찰 비행을 해왔다. 키어 스타머를 근본적으로 고결한 인물이며 영국 정치의 추잡한 세계에는 너무나 고결했던 사람으로 묘사하는 어리석은 정치적 추모글을 읽을 때, 이 사실을 기억하라.
2024년 1월 24일, 가자 지구 중부 알 아말. 이스라엘 군의 대피 명령에 따라 주민들이 대피한 후, 한 15세 소년이 흰 천을 들고 집에서 나오다가 저격수의 총에 맞아 사망한다. 그의 20세 형이 도우러 달려가다 역시 총에 맞아 사망하고, 어머니가 구급차에 신호를 보내려 하자 그녀 역시 총에 맞아 부상을 입는다. 아버지는 시신에 접근하려 할 때마다 총격에 밀려 후퇴할 수밖에 없다.
2024년 8월, 칸 유니스. 16세 사촌 자매 두 명이 결혼식에 참석하던 중 쿼드콥터가 쏜 단 한 발의 총탄에 머리를 맞아 모두 사망한다.
2024년 8월 24일, 칸 유니스. 4세 소녀가 가족과 저녁 식사를 하던 중 쿼드콥터의 총격에 머리를 맞는다.
2024년 12월 10일, 부레이지 난민 캠프. 8세 소년이 집 밖에서 놀다가 저격수의 총에 둔부를 맞는다.
2025년 11월 29일, 바니 수헤일라. 이른바 휴전이 선포된 이후다. 9세와 10세 형제가 휠체어에 의지하는 아버지를 위해 땔감을 줍던 중 드론 공습으로 사망한다. 이들의 죄목은 이스라엘이 임의로 설정하고 끊임없이 변경하는 황색 선을 넘었다는 것이다.
위원회와 인터뷰한 의사들은 머리와 상체에 직접적인 총상을 입은 어린이들이 끊임없이 실려 왔다고 말한다. 한 의사는 위원회에 다음과 같이 증언한다. "부상의 집중도와 표적이 된 신체 부위로 보아, 이스라엘 군인들이 날마다 다른 신체 부위를 표적으로 삼아 표적 맞히기 놀이를 하듯 십 대 소년들을 고의로 저격해 왔다고 판단한다." 특정 표적이 되지 않았을 때조차 어린이들은 무차별적인 공격과 폭격으로 끔찍한 고통을 겪는다.
2023년 12월 20일, 셰이크 라드완. 경고도 없이 이스라엘 군인들이 가족 30명이 있는 집 안으로 수류탄 4발을 투척한다. 5세 소년이 내장이 적출되는 중상을 입는다. 군인들은 집 안으로 들어와 소년의 임신한 어머니(복부와 가슴에 총격을 받음)와 머리에 총격을 받은 아버지를 포함해 8명을 총으로 쏴 살해한다. 이 아이는 나중에 의사에게 치료를 받았는데, 의사는 기저귀를 사용해 밖으로 나온 내장을 다시 집어넣고 배에 테이프를 붙였다.
2023년 12월 19일, 17세 소녀가 공습으로 중상을 입는다. 집은 이스라엘 군에 포위되어 병원으로 이송할 수 없자, 의사인 소녀의 삼촌은 마취제도 없이 가정용 도구를 사용하여 그녀의 다리를 절단한다.
2025년 7월 21일, 가자 시티의 알 지난 유치원이 수업 중에 간접 타격을 받아 다수의 어린이가 부상을 입는다.
2025년 5월 23일, 칸 유니스. 소아과 의사인 알라 알 나자르가 근무하는 동안 공습으로 그녀의 남편과 10명의 자녀 중 9명이 사망한다. 가자의 3대 주요 소아과 병원은 반복해서 공격을 받았다.
2023년 11월 10일, 가자 시티의 알 나스르 병원 직원들은 포화 속에서 황급히 대피해야 했다. 2주 후 텔레비전 카메라가 병원에 도착했을 때, 신생아 중환자실에서 부패해 가는 아기 시신 4구를 발견한다.
그리고 물론, 사촌 4명과 이모, 이모부가 살해된 후 총탄 자국이 가득한 차 안에 홀로 몇 시간 동안 앉아 있었던 5세 힌드 라잡의 이야기도 있다. 그녀가 부상으로 사망했을 때, 그녀를 구조하기 위해 파견된 구조대원 두 명 역시 이스라엘 군에 의해 살해된 상태였다.
가자의 어린이들은 일상적으로 구금되며, 성인들에게 강요되는 강제 나체 노출의 굴욕을 면하지 못한다. 한 목격자는 가자의 한 이스라엘 여군이 속옷만 남기고 옷이 벗겨진 십 대 소년 두 명에게 다른 구금자들 앞에서 춤을 추라고 명령하고, 자신이 웃으면서 그들이 춤추는 영상을 녹화한 과정을 진술했다.
구금된 어린이들은 종종 성인 수감자들과 똑같은 잔혹 행위를 당한다. 악명 높은 스데 테이만 교도소로 끌려간 15세 소년은 위원회에 이스라엘 군인들이 처벌로 자신을 여러 차례 몇 시간 동안 손을 들고 서 있게 했다고 말했다. 소년의 다리는 금속 사슬로 묶여 있었고, 손은 피가 날 정도로 단단히 수갑이 채워져 있었다. 겨울철에 얇은 매트리스와 얇은 담요 한 장으로 겨우 4시간만 자는 것이 허용되었다. 이스라엘 군인들은 개를 데리고 감방으로 들어와 그와 다른 구금자들을 엎드리게 한 뒤 개들을 풀어놓았다.
이스라엘 군인들이 온라인에 게시한 영상과 사진들은 그들이 동심의 파괴를 즐기고 있음을 보여준다. 보고서에 따르면 2023년 10월 7일 이후 2년 동안 가자 지구에서 최소 20,179명의 어린이가 사망했으며, 여기에는 신생아 420명이 포함된다. 게다가 5,000명 이상의 어린이가 잔해 아래에 묻혀 사망한 것으로 추정된다. 이곳은 지구상의 어떤 곳보다 인구당 아동 사지 절단 환자가 많다.
이스라엘 측은 어린이를 아끼려 노력하는 척조차 거의 하지 않는다. 크네세트(이스라엘 의회) 부의장 니심 바투리는 다음과 같이 말했다. "가자를 지워버려라. 그곳에 아이를 한 명도 남기지 마라. 마지막에는 남은 이들을 모두 추방하여 그들이 부활하지 못하게 하라. 그곳에서 태어나는 모든 아이는 태어나는 순간부터 이미 테러리스트다."
유엔 보고서는 이어서 10월 7일 사태와 아무런 관련이 없고 하마스가 통치하지도 않는 서안지구(요르단강 서안)로 시선을 돌린다. 10월 7일 이후 그곳에서 200명 이상의 어린이를 포함해 1,000명 이상의 팔레스타인인이 사망했다.
2025년 1월 25일, 제닌 남부의 무탈라트 알 슈하다. 2세 소녀가 가족과 저녁 식사를 하던 중 머리 뒤쪽에 총격을 받는다.
2025년 1월 8일, 타문. 8세의 라에드 알리 비샤라트와 10세의 함자 암르 바샤라트가 집 앞에 앉아 있다가 23세 청년과 함께 드론 공격으로 사망한다. 이스라엘 측은 이들이 '땅을 만작거렸다'고 비난했는데, 이는 폭발물 매설을 방지한다는 구실로 무차별적으로 적용되는 혐의다. 그러나 단순히 돌을 주우려고 몸을 굽히는 행위까지 이 혐의에 포함될 수는 없다.
2025년 1월 28일, 툴카름. 10세의 사담 라잡이 집 밖에서 총에 맞는다. 이스라엘 군은 구급차를 30분 동안 붙잡아 두었다. 한 군인이 아이의 아버지에게 "내가 네 아들을 쐈다. 신의 뜻대로 아이는 죽을 것이다"라고 말한다. 아이는 2주 후 실제로 사망한다. 이번에도 혐의는 '땅을 만작거렸다'는 것이었다.
2025년 11월 16일, 알 파라 난민 캠프. 14세의 자드 자달라가 사촌과 밖에서 놀다가 이스라엘 군인의 총에 맞았고, 피를 흘리며 죽어가는 동안 45분 동안 바닥에 방치된다. 군인들은 그가 돌을 던진 것처럼 꾸미기 위해 그 옆에 돌을 갖다 놓는다. 그러고 나서 사진을 찍는다.
보고서는 팔레스타인 어린이들이 이스라엘 정착민들로부터 폭력적인 습격을 당하고 있다고 전한다. 2025년 4월, 정착민 두 명이 마을 집 밖에서 놀고 있던 5세 미만의 남매를 납치한다. 정착민들은 아이들의 입을 막은 채 칼로 위협하며 올리브 과수원으로 끌고 간다. 그들은 플라스틱 케이블 타이를 이용해 아이들을 나무에 묶는다. 가족들이 약 5분 후 현장에 도착해 아이들을 풀어주고 구출한다.
또 다른 사건으로, 2024년 10월 18일, 청각 장애가 있는 16세 소년이 살핏에 있는 자신의 농장에서 혼자 일하던 중 몽둥이와 칼을 든 이스라엘 정착민 15명가량에게 구타를 당한다. 정착민들은 번갈아 가며 소년을 발로 찼다.
보고서는 십 대 소녀들이 검문소에서 성폭력을 당하고 있다고 기술한다. 또한 젊은 정착민 무리가 초등학교를 공격하는 상황도 묘사한다. 공포에 질린 아이들이 교실에서 몸을 웅크린다. 이번에도 이스라엘 측은 어린이들이 보호받아야 한다는 시늉조차 거의 하지 않는다. 올해 초, 크네세트 의원 이츠하크 크로이저는 다음과 같이 선언했다. "우리는 결과에 상관없이 어떤 대가를 치르더라도 우리 군인을 지지한다. 제닌에 무고한 어린이란 없다."
이스라엘의 행위는 팔레스타인 어린이들에게 가해진 단순한 우발적 피해나 부수적 피해가 아니다. 보고서는 반대로 이스라엘 보안군과 이스라엘 정착민들이 팔레스타인 어린이들을 직접적이고 고의적으로 표적 삼았다고 결론짓는다. 이는 가자의 팔레스타인 집단을 말살하려는 이스라엘 당국의 제노사이드 의도를 보여주는 핵심 요소다. 서구 언론 편집자들이 우리에게 말하기 좋아하는 것처럼, 이것은 복잡한 문제가 아니다. 이것은 제노사이드다. 그리고 우리는 공모자다.
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A 10-year-old baby was shot in the head while being breastfed by his mother.
A tank ran over a 16-year-old boy, mutilating his body.
Israeli soldiers deliberately shot teenage boys in a game of target practice.
Just three quotes from a horrific new UN report that describes Gaza as the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. Produced by the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the report accuses the Israelis of deliberately targeting children as part of an ongoing campaign of genocide.
I'm going to read parts of that report to you. I'll warn you, this is not an easy listen.
But remember, this is being done with American weapons, and with the complicity of the wider Western world. Britain, in particular, has flown daily surveillance flights over Gaza to support the Israelis. Remember that as you read the fatuous political obituaries for Keir Starmer, that describe him as a fundamentally decent man who was simply too high-minded for the sordid world of British politics.
The 24th of January, 2024 — Al-Amal, Central Gaza Strip
A 15-year-old boy is shot dead by snipers as he emerges from a house holding a white cloth, after residents are ordered by the Israeli military to evacuate. As he rushes to help, his 20-year-old brother is also shot dead. As the mother tries to signal for an ambulance, she is shot and injured. The father is forced back by gunfire every time he tries to reach the bodies.
August 2024 — Khan Younis
Two 16-year-old female cousins are both killed by single shots to the head from a quadcopter while attending a wedding.
The 24th of August, 2024 — Khan Younis
A 4-year-old girl is shot in the head by a quadcopter while eating dinner with her family.
The 10th of December, 2024 — Al-Bureij Refugee Camp
An 8-year-old boy is shot in the buttock by a sniper while playing outside the family's dwelling.
The 29th of November, 2025 — Bani Suheila
After the supposed ceasefire, two brothers, aged 9 and 10, are killed in a drone strike while collecting firewood for their wheelchair-bound father. Their crime? To have crossed Israel's arbitrary and constantly shifting yellow line.
Doctors interviewed by the commission say they received a steady stream of children with direct gunshot wounds to their head and upper body.
"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," one doctor tells the commission.
Even when not specifically targeted, children suffer appallingly from indiscriminate attacks and bombardment.
The 20th of December, 2023 — Sheikh Radwan
Without warning, Israeli soldiers throw four hand grenades into a house containing 30 family members. A 5-year-old boy is badly injured, suffering abdominal evisceration.
The soldiers enter the house and shoot dead eight people, including the boy's pregnant mother (shot in the abdomen and the breasts) and father (shot in the head). The child is later treated by a doctor who reinserted his exposed intestines by using diapers and taped his stomach.
The 19th of December, 2023
A 17-year-old girl is badly injured in an airstrike. The house is surrounded by the Israeli military, making it impossible to get her to a hospital. The girl's uncle, a doctor, amputates her leg using household implements and without anesthetic.
The 21st of July, 2025
The Al-Jinan kindergarten in Gaza City is indirectly hit when classes are in progress. A number of children are injured.
The 23rd of May, 2025 — Khan Younis
While pediatrician Ala al-Najar is at work, an airstrike kills her husband and nine of her ten children.
Gaza's three main pediatric hospitals have been repeatedly attacked.
On the 10th of November, 2023, staff at the Al-Nasr Hospital in Gaza City are forced to hurriedly evacuate under fire. When television cameras reach the hospital two weeks later, they find the decomposing bodies of four babies in the neonatal intensive care unit.
And then, of course, there's the story of 5-year-old Hind Rajab, who spent hours sitting alone in a bullet-riddled car after her four cousins, aunt, and uncle were killed. When she died of her wounds, the two medics sent to rescue her had also been killed by the Israelis.
Children in Gaza are routinely detained and are not spared the humiliation of forced nudity imposed on adults. One witness described how a female Israeli soldier in Gaza ordered two teenage boys, who'd been stripped to their underwear, to dance in front of other detainees, and recorded a video of them dancing while she was laughing.
In detention, children are often subjected to the same brutality as adult inmates. A 15-year-old boy, taken to the notorious Sde Teiman prison, told the commission:
Israeli soldiers made him stand with his hands raised for hours as punishment on multiple occasions.
His legs were shackled with metal chains, and his hands were cuffed so tightly that they would bleed.
He was allowed to sleep for only four hours on a thin mattress with only a thin blanket during winter.
Israeli soldiers entered his cell with dogs, made him and other detainees lie on their stomachs, and released the dogs on them.
Videos and photos posted online by Israeli soldiers show them reveling in the mutilation of childhood.
According to the report, in the two years after October 7, 2023, at least 20,179 children were killed in Gaza, including 420 newborn babies. In addition, more than 5,000 children are thought to lie dead under the rubble. There are more child amputees per capita than any other place on the planet.
The Israelis make little pretense that they seek to spare children. The Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Nissim Vaturi, has said:
"Erase Gaza. Do not leave a child there. Expel all the remaining ones at the end so that they will not have a resurrection. Every child born there is already a terrorist from the moment of his birth."
The UN report then turns to the West Bank, which played no part in the events of October 7th and is not run by Hamas. More than a thousand Palestinians have been killed there since October 7th, including more than 200 children.
The 25th of January, 2025 — Muthalath al-Shuhada, South of Jenin
A 2-year-old girl is shot in the back of the head while having dinner with her family.
The 8th of January, 2025 — Tamun
8-year-old Raed Ali Bisharat and 10-year-old Hamza Amr Bisharat are killed by a drone, along with a 23-year-old, while sitting in front of their home. The Israelis accused them of "messing with the ground"—a catch-all charge intended to prevent planting explosives, but which can also cover someone simply stooping to pick up a stone.
The 28th of January, 2025 — Tulkarm
10-year-old Saddam Rajab is shot outside his home. The Israelis detained the ambulance for half an hour. "I am the one who shot your son. God willing, he will die," a soldier tells the boy's father. He dies two weeks later. Again, the accusation is "messing with the ground."
The 16th of November, 2025 — Al-Far'a Refugee Camp
14-year-old Jad Jadallah is shot by Israeli soldiers while playing outside with his cousin, and left lying on the floor for 45 minutes as he bleeds to death. The soldiers place a stone next to him to suggest he'd been throwing stones. They then take a picture.
Palestinian children face violent assaults by Israeli settlers, the report says.
In April 2025, two settlers abducted two siblings, a girl and a boy under five years, while they were playing outside their village home. The settlers dragged the children at knifepoint to an olive grove while covering their mouths. They tied the children to a tree using plastic hand ties. The family arrived at the scene some five minutes later, untied the children, and released them.
In another incident, on the 18th of October, 2024, a 16-year-old boy with a hearing impairment was beaten by around 15 Israeli settlers carrying sticks and knives while he was working alone in his farm in Salfit. The settlers took turns kicking him.
The report describes teenage girls being sexually assaulted at checkpoints. It describes bands of young settlers attacking primary schools while terrified children cower in the classrooms.
Again, the Israelis make little pretense that children deserve protection. Earlier this year, Knesset member Yitzhak Kroizer declared:
"We back our soldiers at any cost, regardless of the outcome. In Jenin, there are no innocent children."
The conduct of the Israelis does not constitute mere incidental harm or collateral damage done to Palestinian children. The report concludes, on the contrary, Israeli security forces and Israeli settlers have directly and intentionally targeted Palestinian children. It's a key element in the Israeli authorities' genocidal intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza.
This is not complicated, as Western news editors love to tell us.
It is genocide.
And we are complicit.
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[A 10 year old baby was shot in the head while being breastfed by his mother. A tank ran over, a 16 year old boy, mutilating his body. Israeli soldiers deliberately shot teenage boys in a game of target practice. Just three quotes from a horrific new UN report that describes Gaza as the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. Produced by the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory, the report accuses the Israelis of deliberately targeting children as part of an ongoing campaign of genocide. I'm going to read parts of that report to you. I'll warn you, this is not an easy listen. But remember, this is being done with American weapons, and with the complicity of the wider Western world. Britain, in particular, has flown daily surveillance flights over Gaza to support the Israelis. Remember that, as you read, the fatuous political obituaries for Kierstamber, that describe him as a fundamentally decent man, who was simply too high minded for the sordid world of British politics. The 24th of January, 2024, Alamal in the central Gaza Strip. A 15 year old boy is shot dead by snipers as he emerges from a house holding a white cloth after residents are ordered by the Israeli military to evacuate. As he rushes to help his 20 year old brother, is also shot dead, as the mother tries to signal for an ambulance, she is shot and injured. The father is forced back by gunfire every time he tries to reach the bodies. August 2024, Khan Yunis, to 16 year old female cousins, are both killed by single shots to the head from a court copter, while attending a wedding. 24th of August 2024, Khan Yunis, a four year old girl, is shot in the head by a quad copter while eating dinner with her family. 10th of December, 2024, by age refugee camp, an 8 year old boy is shot in the buttock by a sniper while playing outside the family's dwelling. 29th of November 2025, Bani Suhela, after the supposed ceasefire. Two brothers, aged 9 and 10, are killed in a drone strike while collecting firewood for their wheelchair bound father. Their crime to have crossed Israel's arbitrary and constantly shifting yellow line. Doctors interviewed by the commission say they received a steady stream of children with direct gunshot wounds to their head and upper body. 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. One doctor tells the commission, Even when not specifically targeted children suffer appallingly from indiscriminate attacks and bombardment. 20th of December 2023, Sheikh Radwan, without warning, Israeli soldiers throw four hand grenades into a house containing 30 family members. A five year old boy is badly injured, suffering abdominal evisceration. The soldiers enter the house and shoot dead eight people, including the boys pregnant mother, shot in the abdomen and the breasts. And father shot in the head. The child is later treated by a doctor who reinserted his exposed intestines by using diapers and taped his stomach. 19th of December 2023, a 17 year old girl is badly injured in an airstrike. The house is surrounded by Israeli military, unable to get her to a hospital, the girl's uncle, a doctor, amputates her leg, using household implements, and without an aesthetic 21st of July 2025, the Alginan kindergarten in Gaza City is indirectly hit when classes are in progress. A number of children are injured. 23rd of May 2025, Khan Unis, while paediatrician Ala al Najar, is at work, an airstrike kills her husband, and nine of her 10 children. Gaza's three main paediatric hospitals have been repeatedly attacked. 10th of November, 2023, staff at the Al Nasser Hospital in Gaza City are forced to hurriedly evacuate under fire. When television cameras reached the hospital two weeks later, they find the decomposing bodies of four babies in the neonatal intensive care unit. And then, of course, there's the story of five year old Hindrajab who spent hours sitting alone in a bullet riddled car after her four cousins and aunt and uncle were killed. It's a baboon? She when she died of her wounds, the two medics sent to rescue her, having been killed by the Israelis. Children in Gaza are routinely detained and are not spared the humiliation of forced nudity imposed on adults. One witness described how a female Israeli soldier in Gaza ordered two teenage boys, who'd been stripped to their underwear, to dance in front of other detainees, and recorded a video of them dancing while she was laughing. In detention children are often subjected to the same brutality as adult inmates. A 15 year old boy, taken to the notorious, sedate man in prison, told the commission, Israeli soldiers made him stand with his hands raised for hours as punishment on multiple occasions. His legs were shackled with metal chains, and hands cuffed so tightly that they would bleed. He was allowed to sleep for only four hours on a thin mattress with only a thin blanket during winter. Israeli soldiers entered his cell with dogs, made him and other detainees lie on their stomachs, and released the dogs on them. Videos and photos posted online by Israeli soldiers show them revelling in the mutilation of childhood. According to the report, in the two years after October 7, 2023, at least 20,179 children were killed in Gaza, including 420 newborn babies. In addition, more than 5,000 children are thought to lie dead under the rubble. There are more child amputes per capita than any other place on the planet. The Israelis make little pretence that they seek to spare children. The Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Nissim Vatori, has said, erase Gaza. Do not leave a child there. Expel all the remaining ones at the end so that they will not have a resurrection. Every child born there is already a terrorist, from the moment of his birth. The UN report then turns to the West Bank, which played no part in the events of October 7th, and is not run by Hamas. More than a thousand Palestinians have been killed there since October 7th, including more than 200 children. 25th of January, 2025, Muthalath al Shuhada, south of Janin, a two year old girl, is shot in the back of the head while having dinner with her family. 8th of January, 2025, Tamun, 8 year old Raider Ali Bisharat, and 10 year old Hamza Amar Basharat, killed by a drone. along with a 23 year old, while sitting in front of their home. The Israelis accused them of messing with the ground, a catch all charge intended to prevent planting explosives, but which cannot also cover someone simply stooping to pick up a stone. 28th of January 2025, Tolkaram, 10 year old Saddam Rajab, is shot outside his home. The Israelis detained the ambulance for half an hour. I am the one who shot your son, God willing, he will die, a soldier tells the boy's father. He does. Two weeks later. Again, the accusation is messing with the ground. 16th of November, 2025, Alfarar refugee camp, 14 year old Jad Jadala, is shot by Israeli soldiers while playing outside with his cousin, and left lying on the floor for 45 minutes as he bleeds to death. The soldiers place a stone next to him to suggest he'd been throwing stones. They then take a picture. Palestinian children face violent assaults by Israeli settlers, the report says. In April 2025, two settlers abducted two siblings, a girl and a boy under five years. while they were playing outside their village home. The settlers dragged the children at life point to an olive grove, while covering their mouths. They tied the children to a tree using plastic hand ties. The family arrived at the scene some five minutes later, untied the children, and released them. In another incident, on the 18th of October, 2024, a 16 year old boy, with hearing impairment, was beaten by around 15 Israeli settlers, carrying sticks and knives, while he was working alone in his farm in Selfete. The settlers took turns, kicking him. The report describes teenage girls being sexually assaulted at checkpoints. It describes bands of young settlers attacking primary schools. Hi. I, I... Terrified children cower in the classrooms. Again, the Israelis make little pretence, children deserve protection. Earlier this year, Knesset member Yitzza Kreuser declared, We back our soldiers at any cost, regardless of the outcome. In Janine, there are no innocent children. The conduct of the Israelis does not constitute mere incidental harm or collateral damage done to Palestinian children. The report concludes, on the contrary, Israeli security forces and Israeli settlers have directly and intentionally targeted Palestinian children. It's a key element in the Israeli authorities, genocidal intent to destroy the Palestinian group in Gaza. This is not complicated, as Western news editors love to tell us. It is genocide. And we are complicit. ]
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