UN: Israel Targeting Children Towards Their Goal of Genocide, Blight Supremacy - 30% of All Murdered Have Been Children (unarmed)

About 30 percent of those killed by Israel in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, have been children, according to a United Nations inquiry, which found the “deliberate” targeting of kids to have furthered a genocide against Palestinians.

The report, authored by the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, follows a previous finding in September that Israel’s actions in Gaza constituted genocide.

“The deliberate targeting of children is one of the key elements establishing genocidal intent of the Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the Palestinian group, in whole or in part, in Gaza,” the commission said on Tuesday.

Between the start of Israel’s military campaign in October 2023 and the “ceasefire” agreement in October 2025, the report found that more than 20,000 children were killed, while more than 44,000 were injured. Among those killed, more than 5,000 were under the age of 5, more than 1,000 were under the age of 1, and more than 400 were newborn babies.

The report highlights documented instances in which Israeli forces directly fired upon children, with medical professionals testifying that they treated kids with “direct gunshot and sniper wounds, often to the head and abdomen.”

One sample of 168 children killed by gunshots found that 73 were shot in the head and 22 were shot in the chest, which the commission argued was evidence of intentionality. [MORE]