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About 30% of those killed by Israel in Gaza since October 7, 2023, have been children, according to a United Nations inquiry on Tuesday, which found the \u201cdeliberate\u201d targeting of kids to have furthered a genocide against Palestinians.<\/p>\n

The , authored by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, follows a previous finding in September that Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza constituted genocide.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe deliberate targeting of children is one of the key elements establishing genocidal intent of the Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the Palestinian group, in whole or in part, in Gaza,\u201d the commission said.<\/p>\n

Between the start of Israel\u2019s military campaign in October 2023 and the \u201cceasefire\u201d agreement in October 2025, the report found that more than 20,000 children were killed, while more than 44,000 were injured. Among those killed, more than 5,000 were under the age of five, more than 1,000 were under the age of one, and more than 400 were newborn babies.<\/p>\n

The report highlights documented instances in which Israeli forces directly fired upon children, with medical professionals testifying that they treated kids with \u201cdirect gunshot and sniper wounds, often to the head and abdomen.\u201d One sample of 168 children killed by gunshots found that 73 were shot in the head and 22 were shot in the chest, which the commission argued was evidence of intentionality.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased 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 \u2014 a different body part being targeted on different days\u2026 There is a very clear pattern that suggests this is a deliberate aiming of different body parts [of children],\u201d one doctor told the commission.<\/p>\n

They also cited dozens of cases of children being targeted by snipers and quadcopters. The report quotes one Israeli soldier who appeared anonymously in a documentary about the war and described operating drones like a video game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe drones, in my opinion, are what most dehumanize the other side,\u201d he said. \u201cYou see everything on a screen. You drop the bomb. It feels like a game. You can sit in some basement of a house, safe, with your helmet off, scratching your balls, half-dressed, and kill Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report also argues that the deaths of children in airstrikes were not mere collateral damage, as Israel often asserts, but the foreseeable result of Israel\u2019s use of high payload weapons against densely populated areas, which resulted in massive numbers of civilian casualties.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese deliberate attacks wiped out entire families across two or three or even four generations, with the Israeli security forces fully aware that children would be present and that children, with their small, fragile bodies, have a higher chance of death and serious injury in such attacks,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Israeli security forces continued and repeated these attacks over a two-year period, without amending targeting criteria or selection of weapons, while child casualties mounted,\u201d it continued. \u201cThis indicates that such attacks, which killed children in such high numbers, were intentional.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adding to evidence of intentionality, the report said, was the direct targeting of neonatal and maternity care centers, which it said \u201cdirectly endangered\u201d the ability of newborn babies to survive and contributed to miscarriages and birth defects. In the first half of 2025, Gaza experienced a 41% decline in live births compared with the same period in 2022, the report found.<\/p>\n

The report notes that numerous Israeli politicians have explicitly justified the targeting of children since the early days of the genocidal onslaught.<\/p>\n

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On October 9, 2023, Nissim Vaturi, the deputy Knesset speaker, called on the army to \u201cErase Gaza\u2026 Do not leave a child there. Expel all the remaining ones at the end.\u201d In January 2025, he said, \u201cGaza is full of terrorists and every child born there is already a terrorist, from the moment of his birth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amid Israel\u2019s attack on the Al-Shifa hospital in July 2024, Israeli Knesset Member Amit Halevi stated that the hundreds of babies in its maternity ward were \u201call born terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was part of a \u201csystematic and complete destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza,\u201d the report said, that fell heaviest on children. Attacks on pediatric hospitals forced sick and injured kids into smaller facilities without the necessary supplies or pediatric staff.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s restrictions on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, meanwhile, turned survivable injuries into ones that caused death or permanent disability. Doctors said children were forced to undergo \u201chorrific amputations\u201d without anesthesia, while others who\u2019d suffered burns and other traumatic injuries were left without painkillers.<\/p>\n

The destruction of medical infrastructure, the report said, was not incidental. It said Israel had \u201coperational plans and procedures for attacking healthcare facilities.\u201d The result, it said, was preventing Palestinians\u2019 \u201ccapacity and possibility to heal, recover, and live.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report points out that since the ceasefire went into effect, more than 100 children had been killed and hundreds more wounded as of mid-January, with many being shot near the so-called \u201cyellow line\u201d that marks the edge of Israel\u2019s occupation area in Gaza, which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been gradually advancing forward.<\/p>\n

Israel dismissed the findings of the commission, rejecting what it called a \u201csecond defamatory advocacy report.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael dismisses this libelous sham,\u201d it said in a statement and added that while \u201cevery child deserves protection,\u201d the report ignored \u201cthe brutal tactics of Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the UN commission, said, \u201cThe evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven after the October 2025 ceasefire,\u201d he said, \u201cchildren continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the ceasefire and for the protection owed to Palestinian children under international law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond Gaza, the commission reported that Israeli forces have killed more than 200 children in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7, 2023. Hundreds more have been detained, often without any charge, and many have been subjected to systemic mistreatment in detention, including the deprivation of food and medical care, torture, and sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if the bombs and guns fall silent in Gaza and the West Bank, Palestinian children will not simply recover overnight,\u201d said Muralidhar. \u201cThe destruction of their health, education, and development is irreversible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe protection, care, and survival of Palestinian children are inseparable from the Palestinian people\u2019s right to self-determination,\u201d he continued. \u201cBy targeting children, Israel is attacking the very capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine their future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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