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On Friday, childhood educator and YouTube influencer Ms. Rachel hosted a press briefing on the impact of Israel’s genocide on Palestinian children, following the release of the UN Commission of Inquiry report on Palestinian children earlier this week.

The press briefing featured Chris Sidoti of the UN Commission of Inquiry; emergency physician Dr. Mahmooda “Mimi” Syed, who served at Gaza’s al-Aqsa Hospital and Nasser Hospital in 2024; and a child from a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The briefing also featured videos of children in Gaza who have lost parents during the genocide, and clips of kids sharing their hopes for their education, which has been disrupted for nearly three years.

Sidoti of the UN Commission of Inquiry spoke about the report on the targeting of Palestinian children, which was released Tuesday. The Commission of Inquiry, he explained, found a pattern of Israeli forces “intentionally targeting children in Gaza” — not only through mass killing and bombing campaigns, but also through “the intentional targeting of individual children.”

Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza since the start of the genocide in October 2023.

Israeli soldiers have purposefully targeted children, the UN commission found, “not as part of a military operation,” but with soldiers “deliberately targeting” kids with precisely-aimed shots “to the head or to the upper part of the body,” Sidoti explained.

UN Commission Finds 30 Percent of People Killed in Gaza Genocide Were Children

The UN report........

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