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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jy96w6pw2oA UN commission of inquiry says Israel has deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, as well as war crimes in the occupied West Bank.
A new report alleges that Israeli authorities and security forces have "deliberately carried out acts inflicting death and severe bodily and mental harm on hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children", and that the killings continued even after last October's ceasefire in Gaza.
The commission says it has reasonable grounds to conclude that those acts "form part of a deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children".
Israel's foreign ministry said it "utterly rejects" the commission's report, calling it a "libellous sham" and "a propaganda piece as outrageous as its previous ones".
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UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting children (Original Post)
malaise
6 hrs ago
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displacedvermoter
(5,228 posts)1. Can't argue with these findings, I fear...
3_Limes
(609 posts)2. You and I can't. But don't worry. The hasbarra patrol will be along soon with lengthy screeds
Explaing how this is all perfectly civilized, and was, in fact the only reasonable course of action. Happens every time.
AloeVera
(4,615 posts)3. Don't worry, UN and folks of conscience!
They were all human shields.
Of course they were not. Everyone knew it even those spouting this inhuman rationalization for genocide.
Those Palestinian children have been harmed beyond measure by the trauma alone - and I fear beyond repair without massive treatment efforts and mobilization of resources. Something Israel would try to prevent, no doubt. Can't have a planned genocide go to waste, can we?
BuddhaGirl
(3,714 posts)4. Good!
Dave Bowman
(7,559 posts)5. Fucking monsters. 😡
MustLoveBeagles
(18,268 posts)6. Monsterous
Bibi should be tried as war criminal. In what way is this self defense?
malaise
(299,500 posts)7. He is doing this with US support and mostly
Western silence
MustLoveBeagles
(18,268 posts)8. I know and hate it
Do people consider their lives worth nothing? How are children responsible for what happened 10/7?