With the world diverted by the Iran War and despite the Gaza Peace Plan, Israeli genocide in Palestine continues. Since Israel started its Gaza massacre in October 2023, at least 73 thousand Palestinians have been killed and 173 thousand have been injured. Thousands of others have been imprisoned or are missing. Even worse is the deliberate targeting of Palestinian children which has been documented by the UN's Independent International Commission on the Occupied Palestinian Territories in a report entitled "The Essence of Childhood". The report, released on 18 June, maintains that till October 2025, Israeli forces have killed over 20 thousand children and injured 44 thousand. Additionally, Israeli forces have used torture, rape, gender-based violence, inhumane and degrading treatment, incommunicado detention and arbitrary arrests against children, while unknown numbers have been buried in mass graves and others that have simply disappeared. Children's hospitals, schools, orphanages, refuge shelters and food distribution camps have also been attacked.

The Israeli canard that these juvenile casualties are "collateral damage" is exposed by several specific incidents highlighted in the report: a 10-month-old baby was shot through the head inside a tent by a quadcopter mounted sniper rifle while being fed by his mother; a 4-year-old girl was shot in the head by sniper fire while she was eating with the family in their tent; a 10-year-old boy was shot several times and left bleeding to death; another boy, holding a white flag, was........

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