„I read the full UN Report on Israel’s genocide today and I cried my eyes out. I have posted it in the comments below. I challenge anyone with an ounce of humanity, to read through it and not conclude that Israel is anything but a sick society.

Amongst other horrors, the report finds what most people already saw with their own eyes, and what most western politicians have chosen to whitewash or completely ignore, that Israel deliberately targeted children and pregnant women.

They did this in two direct ways: by “directly by shooting at their vital organs using precision weapons such as quadcopters and snipers; and through use of high impact weapons”.

There are multiple examples under clause 356: quadcopter and sniper kills of “10-day-old baby boy on 12 April 2024 and a four-year-old girl on 24 August 2024”, “an eight-year-old boy using sniper rifle in the Bureij refugee camp on 10 December 2024”, “a two-year-old girl in south Jenin on 25 January 2025”, “a 10-year-old boy in Tulkarem on 28 January 2025” and “a 10-year-old boy, an eight-year-old boy along with their 23-year-old male cousin through a drone attack in Tammun Village on 8 January 2025” just to name a few.

Israel also used starvation as a weapon of war by imposing a blockade and seige. This produced “acute and chronic malnutrition among children”.

“Children, including newborns, have been deprived of calories, proteins, and nutrients necessary for growth, with visible effects such as damaged hair, skin, teeth, and paralysed limbs. Immunological vulnerabilities have also contributed to the re-emergence of diseases like polio.”

“Israel’s use of starvation as a method of war has also caused severe reproductive harms to women and girls, impacting all aspects of reproduction, including pregnancy, childbirth, post-partum recovery and lactation, as well as adversely impacted the health of newborns.”

The report goes on to say that Palestinian children, especially adolescent boys, have been “arrested, tortured, and ill-treated in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.” They have also been punished for “presuming they pose threats for future acts they have not committed”.

They were held with adults, routinely subjected to torture and physical, sexual and gender-based violence, “causing severe physical and mental harm.”

“Consistent with the Commission’s previous findings on sexual violence committed against Palestinians, Israeli security forces used sexual violence as a tactic of war to punish, instil fear, and treat the bodies of Palestinians, including children, as instruments of collective shaming and oppression, entrenched within a prolonged, ethnic, gendered, and intergenerational pattern of Israeli occupation and hostilities.”

The report highlights how Israel deliberately targeted schools and hospitals, including paediatric, neonatal and maternity facilities. As a result, “injured children have undergone procedures in overstretched or damaged facilities, often without anaesthesia, sterile conditions, or postoperative care, leading to lifelong harm and increased mortality.”

“One egregious outcome is that Gaza now has the highest concentration of child amputees in the world.”

And as if to further underscore the sickness, the report goes on to say that “Israeli soldiers in Gaza filming themselves destroying and mocking children’s toys raise serious ethical, disciplinary, and legal concerns, symbolising the dehumanization of Palestinian childhood itself.”

The only question remaining is what are the political and media classes around the world going to do about it?

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