As Gaza is destroyed, Israel is killing dozens of children in the West Bank

Naseem Asous, left, a friend of slain Palestinian boy Amer Al Najar, sits by his friend during the funeral prayer at a mosque in Burin, West Bank, this month. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/Getty Images

Israel is using deadly force against children in the West Bank

“The depth of the horror surpasses our ability to describe it,” James Elder, a spokesperson with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), said after travelling the length of Gaza this week. There is nothing left: Republicans who called for Gaza to be turned into a “parking lot” have got their wish. Amid the ruins, a traumatized and trapped population are being starved to death; an entire generation is seeing their future destroyed. “Starvation is used as a weapon of war,” the EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said this week. “Israel is provoking famine.”