(NCS) — Israeli forces proceed to commit genocide against Palestinians by deliberately targeting children in the Gaza Strip, an unbiased United Nations Commission of Inquiry has discovered.
In a report revealed Tuesday, the commission — which last year concluded Israel had dedicated genocide in Gaza — discovered that Israeli army operations have continued inflicting “unprecedented death, injury and trauma” to Palestinian children.
The commission describes what it says is the deliberate targeting of children as a key indicator of Israeli authorities’ genocidal intent to destroy the Palestinian individuals, together with after a ceasefire in Gaza took impact.
“Even after the October 2025 ceasefire, children 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,” stated Srinivasan Muralidhar, chairman of the commission.
The Israeli authorities has repeatedly denied committing genocide, and officers swiftly decried Tuesday’s UN findings.
The Foreign Ministry referred to as it “a propaganda piece as outrageous as its previous ones,” whereas Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, referred to as it a “political blood libel disguised as a UN document.”
“Instead of addressing Hamas’ crimes, the October 7 massacre, the hostages, and Hamas’ cynical use of children and civilians as human shields, the commission has once again chosen to place Israel in the dock,” Danon stated.
The report particulars situations Israel has imposed on Gaza because the ceasefire — widespread assaults and the blocking of humanitarian and medical support — which it stated brought on “multi-layered harm to Palestinian children’s survival, health and development.”
It paperwork what it describes as a scientific sample of Israeli assaults on hospitals, well being clinics and reproductive amenities — with devastating short- and long-term penalties for children’s bodily and psychological wellbeing.
The US-backed ceasefire brokered in October ended two years of conflict in Gaza — although, because the report famous, “hostilities did not cease but rather were reduced.”
Eight months on, Israel has carried out near-daily airstrikes, killing over 1,000 Palestinians, together with over 250 children, in keeping with the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Israel has accused Hamas of repeatedly violating the ceasefire and refusing to put down its arms. Most of Gaza’s inhabitants nonetheless lives in tents, with Israel blocking reconstruction supplies and heavy gear over Hamas’ refusal to disarm.
An worldwide safety pressure was imagined to deploy to Gaza below US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, with Israel steadily withdrawing. Instead, Israel has expanded its territorial management — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated Israel’s forces now management 70% of the enclave.
Israel initially arrange a short lived “yellow line” on a map – demarcating an space occupied by the army following the ceasefire.
But that line has steadily moved to the west, increasing the Israeli army’s entrenchment in Gaza and squeezing Palestinians into an ever-smaller portion of the territory. Crossing the road stays forbidden to residents, tons of of whom have been shot lifeless for coming too shut, Palestinian officers say. Now a brand new “orange line” past the sooner yellow line marks off newly seized land.
As the road retains shifting, it’s troublesome for Palestinians to know the place it begins and ends, significantly children.
The report additionally centered on the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, accusing Israel of conflict crimes and highlighting “a sharp increase in violence” against Palestinian children by Israeli settlers.
It concluded that the Israeli army has “repeatedly employed unreasonable, excessive and punitive force against children as a tool of control, deterrence and collective intimidation” in the West Bank.
According to the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, 236 Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank since October 2023.In each Gaza and the West Bank, the report cites “mass arbitrary arrests and detentions” of children — lots of whom stay unaccounted for in Gaza, their whereabouts unknown.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the report’s findings, saying its significance lies in “reaffirming the international community’s failure to stop the violations committed by the occupying power and to hold accountable those responsible for these crimes against Palestinian children.”
The commission referred to as on the Israeli authorities to “immediately halt military operations in Gaza,” and to abide by its “special obligations towards children under international law.”
It urged member states to arrest Israeli officers wished by the International Criminal Court, halt arms transfers to Israel, and impose sanctions on Israeli officers and settlers.
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