UN Inquiry: Israel Continues to Commit Genocide by Allegedly Deliberately Targeting Children in Gaza

Is this a devastating account of Israel's crimes or a flawed and defamatory blood libel?

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UN Inquiry: Israel Continues to Commit Genocide by Allegedly Deliberately Targeting Children in Gaza

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Above: A Palestinian boy carries a pot of food on his head in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on June 16, 2026. Image credit: Moiz Salhi/Anadolu/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-Palestine narrative

This report paints a devastating picture of childhood in Gaza after three years of war. In addition to evidence of Palestinian children being deliberately targeted by Israeli security forces, investigators found severe physical and psychological injuries, mass trauma, orphanhood, repeated displacement, disability and starvation, as well as a collapse of the educational and health care facilities in Gaza. The commission's chair found these acts were intended to attack the capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine their future.

Palestine Chronicle

Pro-Israel narrative

Every child deserves protection and a future free from terrorist incitement and martyrdom training camps. However, the commission's latest report is a propaganda piece as outrageous as its previous ones. It is a fundamentally flawed mechanism whose very purpose is to single out and vilify Israel rather than seek the truth, using the demagoguery of modern blood libels to defame Israel. It completely erases Israeli children who were brutally murdered, kidnapped and targeted by Hamas, while ignoring Hamas' cynical use of Palestinian children as human shields and pawns of war.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel) on X