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