Almost all of my feed today has been of dead Palestinian children; mothers hunched over the bodies of their children, families wailing, fathers holding their dead infants singing lullabies to them. It's horrific.
The UN reports that almost 70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children.
The same report states that children aged 5-9 account for most verified deaths in Gaza.
Investigations show that 335 bullets were fired by Israeli forces at a family car where 6 year old Hind Rajab was trapped and killed.
Doctors and nurses testified to the overwhelming number of children who were killed by sustaining gunshot wounds in the head or neck by Israeli snipers.
NICUs have been a specific target of strikes and destruction, to the point where today there are only 54 incubators remaining across all of Gaza.
Israel is waging a "war" against a besieged population, of which nearly 50% are children, and yet they try to convince everyone that this is anything but a war on children? This is a genocide in every sense of the word, where the past, present and future are being actively annihilated.
Reblogging this to add the findings of a study on the extent of the psychological harm of Israel's genocide on Gaza's children, which found 96% of the children surveyed feel their death is imminent, while 49% have expressed a desire to die.
This is a devastating war on children and its implications are going to last for generations to come. We shall not rest until every war criminal responsible faces consequences. And that's the very least we can do.
