The deliberate targeting of Palestinian children is central to a United Nations-mandated report's conclusion that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The commission argues that children have not only been victims of the war, but have been targeted in ways that help establish genocidal intent. Israel has dismissed the findings of the report, released this week, as "defamatory".
Children have been killed directly through military attacks and indirectly through the destruction of schools and hospitals, starvation and the collapse of essential services, the report said.
