{"id":2736,"date":"2026-06-23T08:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:37:33","slug":"israel-targeted-gaza-children-resulting-in-genocide-un-inquiry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2736","title":{"rendered":"Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>GENEVA, June 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting \u200bin genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said \u200con Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div>The report by the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023.<\/div>\n<div>Around 30% of those killed in the Gaza war were children, the report found.<\/div>\n<div>A previous report by the commission in September found that Israel had committed genocide \u200bin Gaza and that top Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu incited these acts \u2014 accusations that Israel called scandalous.<\/div>\n<div>Israel&#8217;s mission in Geneva said Israel \u200brejected what it called the Commission&#8217;s &#8220;second defamatory advocacy report&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Israel dismisses this libelous sham,&#8221; it said in a statement, adding that &#8220;every child \u2060deserves protection&#8221; and asserting that the report ignored &#8220;the brutal tactics of Hamas&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>The U.N. commission said that Palestinian children were deliberately targeted and killed during the war, including after \u200ba ceasefire came into effect in October 2025. It said this was a key element establishing genocidal intent by Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the Palestinian \u200bgroup, in whole or in part, in Gaza.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,\u201d said Srinivasan Muralidhar, the commission&#8217;s chair, in a statement accompanying the report.<\/div>\n<h2>CHILD DEATHS<\/h2>\n<div>The report found that the proportion of children killed was higher than in previous conflicts. Between October 7, 2023 and October 7, 2025, at least 20,179 children were \u200bkilled, around 30% of the overall death toll.<\/div>\n<div>By comparison, in hostilities in Gaza in 2008\u20132009 and 2014, children made up approximately 24% of conflict-related fatalities, the report said.<\/div>\n<div>Israeli \u200bforces continued to use high-payload munitions and weapons with wide-area effects in densely populated residential areas despite mounting child casualties, the commission said.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThis indicates that such attacks, which killed children in \u200csuch high \u2060numbers, were intentional,\u201d it said. It said it believed children were targeted collectively because the Israeli security forces considered the civilian population as a whole to be associated with Hamas and other armed groups.<\/div>\n<div>A rebuttal shared by Israel&#8217;s mission in Geneva said Israel &#8220;consistently strives to minimize harm to children even in situations of conflict&#8221; and that Israel rejected the suggestion it deliberately targets children &#8220;in the strongest terms&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>Muralidhar said that by targeting children, Israel was undermining the capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine \u200btheir future.<\/div>\n<div>Conditions imposed by Israel in Gaza, \u200bincluding widespread attacks, repeated displacement and \u2060starvation caused by the blockade of aid, food and medicine, severely harmed children\u2019s health and development, resulting in preventable deaths and trauma, the report said.<\/div>\n<div>The inquiry also found that attacks on healthcare and reproductive facilities impacted the survival of newborns and reported \u200bincreases in miscarriages, and that nearly all children in Gaza were reported to require psychological support.<\/div>\n<div>Israel&#8217;s rebuttal said the report \u200bfailed to mention Israel&#8217;s \u2060role in facilitating vaccinations and the entry of medical staff, and the establishment of field hospitals. It accused Hamas of systematically diverting humanitarian aid and fuel for hospitals. Hamas has rejected such accusations.<\/div>\n<h2>WEST BANK<\/h2>\n<div>In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the Commission found a sharp increase in violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian children and documented evidence of torture, including \u2060sexual and \u200bgender-based violence, during mass arrests and detention.<\/div>\n<div>It said Palestinian children, particularly boys, were subjected to systematic mistreatment \u200bin detention, including forced stripping, beatings and food deprivation.<\/div>\n<div>The commission concluded that the treatment constituted the crimes against humanity of torture and other inhumane acts causing great suffering or serious injury.<\/div>\n<div>Israel&#8217;s rebuttal said the \u200breport&#8217;s findings on the West Bank omitted context on the &#8220;constant terrorist threat&#8221; that it said Israeli security forces were responding to.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2734\">How Brexit is estimated to have hit the UK economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2732\">Russian strikes injure six in Ukraine as fuel crisis deepens into Siberia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2730\">New Lebanon-Israel talks to begin, in shadow of US-Iran deal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting \u200bin genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said \u200con Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,6],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-human-rights","tag-middle-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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