The UN says Israel is targeting Palestinian children. Here’s why the ‘bias’ defence doesn’t hold up

In the raw aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 assault on Israel, one could argue that use of extreme and dehumanizing language by Israeli officials was, if not justified, at least predictable. Trauma of that magnitude can go some way toward explaining what came next: then-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant’s characterizatio

'Why would anyone shoot an infant?': Killing of Palestinian children, teens by Israel surges in West Bank  Dawn

B'Tselem, an Israeli rights group, reported 235 children and teenagers killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023, through June 2026.

Of the 54 Palestinian children or teenagers killed in 2025, the youngest was just two years old.

Alia al-Hallaq's son Mohammed was nine when he was killed by an Israeli army bullet last October, but the Palestinian homemak