"Top UN officials told the Security Council on Wednesday, warning of soaring child deaths, starvation and a shattered health system amid continuing bombardment and displacement."
"Food is running out. Those seeking it risk being shot. People are dying trying to feed their families. Field hospitals receive dead bodies, and medical workers hear stories firsthand from the injured – day after day after day"
"UNICEF’s Executive Director Catherine Russell told ambassadors that an average of 28 children are killed in Gaza every day – “the equivalent of an entire classroom”. Over the past 21 months, more than 17,000 children have been killed and 33,000 injured across Gaza."
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One way to support @FranceskAlbs is to read, circulate, cite, quote, and teach the rigorous reports she has written on self-determination, carceral system, child rights, genocide, and corporate complicity. Here is a list:
1) Sep. 2022: "The violations described in this report expose the nature of Israeli occupation: an intentionally acquisitive, segregationist & repressive regime designed to prevent the realization of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination" ohchr.org/en/documents/c…
2) June 2023: "Through an array of physical, bureaucratic and digital mechanisms, the Israeli regime has turned the occupied territory into a panopticon, where Palestinians are constantly surveilled and disciplined" ohchr.org/en/documents/c…
"Testimonies collected over the past year from released detainees and those still in custody paint a broader and horrifying picture of systematic abuse and torture against detainees from Gaza." @pchrgaza /1
In Haaretz Hebrew, 22 May, former Israeli PM Olmert says he used to think that the mass killing of civilians in Gaza was a result of a "tragic war" & he denied the charges of genocide & war crimes, but now he thinks: it is an intentional annihilation. archive.ph/3vvOi
Olmert: "What is happening in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks has nothing to do with a legitimate war goal. Our fighters are being sent by the state leadership — and the army leadership that obeys it... in an illegitimate military campaign."
Olmert: Israel has adopted a deliberate policy of starvation archive.ph/3vvOi
Those who are surprised by Yair Golan's comments ("killing babies as a hobby"), or are inclined to dismiss Feiglin as a marginal figure, have not been being attention. Search the word "children" in South Africa's submission to UNSC in Feb 2025: 🧵/1
2. Recall that Netanyahu, Gallant framed it from the start as a war against the "children of darkness" and that endless statements by politicians, soldiers, journalists, public figures repeatedly proclaimed: there are no innocents in Gaza, where the majority is children.
3. The genocide did not start after Israel broke the cease fire, as "revisionists" would have it: Centrist Knesset members were clear from the start:
A reading list of 14 important reports by the leading Palestinian human rights organisations, published between October 2023 - May 2025:
@pchrgaza @alhaq_org @Addameer @AlMezanCenter @DCIPalestine: 🧵
1. @Addameer, January 2024, on increasing brutality in arrest tactics since October 2023 addameer.org/media/5262
2. @Addameer, February 2024, report on solitary confinement in Israeli prisons addameer.org/media/5354