International law provides special protection for children in armed conflicts. Countless Palestinian children have been killed, yet no law is protecting them.
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15 Family Members Killed in Israeli Strike on Gaza; Only Seven-year-old, His Mother Survived
The likely target of last week’s IDF strike in Gaza City was a Hamas Finance Ministry employee. He and his five daughters were killed. ‘Everyone was gone – my brother and his kids, my sister and hers, my husband and our children,’ his wife said.
Israeli forces shoot dead 12-year-old Palestinian boy near Jenin
Mahmoud Methqal Ali Abu Al-Haija was shot dead in the abdomen by Israeli forces who opened fire indiscriminately on April 23 in the Al-Thahra cemetery in the Palestinian town of Al-Yamoun, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. In 2024, Israeli forces & settlers killed at least 93 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank
WATCH: Through a Child’s Eyes: Genocide of the Palestinian People in Gaza
Defence for Children Palestine creates a powerful video from the perspective of the youth in Gaza amidst the genocide that Israel is insistent on maintaining.
Why Israel is waging war on Palestinian children
The Palestinian youth inherited from past generations a love of the land, preserving the dream of return, and for that, they must be eliminated.
18 March 2025: The day 183 children in Gaza were massacred by Israel
Entire generations of families were wiped out during deadly attacks on Tuesday, as Israel appeared to deliberately target suhoor meal during Ramadan.
Photos: Names and faces of children killed in Israel’s latest offensive
At least 183 Palestinian children have been killed since Tuesday morning following Israel’s latest offensive, breaking the ceasefire agreement. Here are a few of them
Jabaliya Is Now a City of Rubble
I saw northern Gaza for the first time in 15 months: debris and dust—that is all that is left. Every block looks like it has been hit with several powerful earthquakes.
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it
There is no way to rationalize the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully. The majority have had no funerals, no prayers, no moments of silence, no celebration of their lives, their spirit, their personalities, each unique. They gather in a column of names on a list…
‘Suffering horrifically’: 10 months of Israel’s ‘war on children’ in Gaza
One of the main victims of the ongoing assault on Gaza has been a group that is, by far, the most defenseless and further removed from all that is driving Israel’s campaign of death and destruction: children…