The UN Says Israel Deliberately Targeted Gaza’s Children
By Mario Nawfal
This is the UN’s own investigative commission, not an activist group, and its new report concludes Israel set out to kill Palestinian children as part of an ongoing genocide.
The commission counted at least 20,179 children killed and 44,143 injured in Gaza between 7 October 2023 and 7 October 2025.
Its reading of why is the part that sits heaviest. By going after the children, the report says, Israel is trying to hollow out the next generation and choke off the Palestinian people’s ability to exist and rebuild.
One case the commissioners read aloud: a 14-year-old shot by a patrol outside his own home with no fighting anywhere near, then left on the ground while soldiers stood around him for around 45 minutes as he bled to death.
Chris Sidoti, one of the three commissioners behind the report and a veteran human rights lawyer, didn’t hedge.
“There can be no doubt in anyone who reads today’s report that every international legal norm has been violated by the actions of the Israeli authorities towards Palestinian children, and they need to be held accountable.”
The findings add up to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, plus war crimes in the West Bank. Israel calls the report a defamatory sham.
The world, for the most part, has gone quiet.
