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10:56 02.07.2026 •
A mother mourns over the body of her three-year-old Palestinian child Iyad Ahmed Naeem Al-Rabai'a, who was reportedly killed by Israeli airstrike, during his funeral at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip
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Israeli forces continue to commit genocide against Palestinians by deliberately targeting children in the Gaza Strip, an independent United Nations Commission of Inquiry has found, CNN reports.
In a report published Tuesday, the commission — which last year concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza — found that Israeli military operations have continued causing “unprecedented death, injury and trauma” to Palestinian children.
The commission describes what it says is the deliberate targeting of children as a key indicator of Israeli authorities’ genocidal intent to destroy the Palestinian people, including after a ceasefire in Gaza took effect.
“Even after the October 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the ceasefire and for the protection owed to Palestinian children under international law,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, chairman of the commission.
The report details conditions Israel has imposed on Gaza since the ceasefire — widespread attacks and the blocking of humanitarian and medical aid — which it said caused “multi-layered harm to Palestinian children’s survival, health and development.”
The US-backed ceasefire brokered in October ended two years of war in Gaza — though, as the report noted, “hostilities did not cease but rather were reduced.”
Eight months on, Israel has carried out near-daily airstrikes, killing over 1,000 Palestinians, including over 250 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The report also focused on the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, accusing Israel of war crimes and highlighting “a sharp increase in violence” against Palestinian children by Israeli settlers.
It concluded that the Israeli military has “repeatedly employed unreasonable, excessive and punitive force against children as a tool of control, deterrence and collective intimidation” in the West Bank.
According to the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, 236 Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank since October 2023.In both Gaza and the West Bank, the report cites “mass arbitrary arrests and detentions” of children — many of whom remain unaccounted for in Gaza, their whereabouts unknown.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the report’s findings, saying its importance lies in “reaffirming the international community’s failure to stop the violations committed by the occupying power and to hold accountable those responsible for these crimes against Palestinian children.”
Israel’s actions are fuelling antisemitism around the World
Photo: Greenpeace
The Guardian publishes an opinion of Dr Anthony Isaacs on an intervention by prominent Israelis threatening legal action against their government over an ‘ideology of ethnic cleansing’ in the West Bank.
The leaked letter signed by significant figures in the Israeli political and cultural establishments, including former prime ministers and heads of the security services, threatening legal action over an “ideology of ethnic cleansing” in the occupied West Bank, is an important intervention (Israeli former leaders and security chiefs threaten legal action over ‘Jewish terrorism’, 24 June).
Notably, while making comparisons with European anti‑Jewish pogroms in the 19th and 20th centuries, they also draw attention to the way in which Israel’s actions have fuelled antisemitism around the world.
In his resignation speech, Keir Starmer praised himself for “ripping out the poison of antisemitism” in the Labour party. By waging factional war, while failing to draw any real distinction between genuine antisemitism and opposition to Israel’s policies, he contrived to expel disproportionate numbers of Jewish Labour party members who felt strongly about Israel’s war crimes and breaches of international law.
While fighting antisemitism and all forms of racism remains critical, the Israeli intervention should finally put to rest the notion that appeasing Israel in its perpetration of war crimes contributes to a reduction of antisemitism, when the truth is the reverse.
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