1 of 2 | A Palestinian man carries the shrouded body of a child who was killed in an Israeli bombardment on March 18, 2025. Israel launched extensive aerial assault on Gaza, shattering the ceasefire and killing more than 400 Palestinians, including women and children. File Photo by Anas Deeb/UPI | License Photo
June 23 (UPI) -- A U.N. human rights committee said Tuesday that Israel is continuing to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip and is deliberately targeting Palestinian children.
The U.N. International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory published a report concluding that Israeli authorities and military forces have committed genocide as has been their intent. The killings of children have continued after a cease-fire was agreed to in October.
"The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces," Srinivasan Muralidhar, chairman of the commission, said in a statement. "Even after the October 2025 cease-fire, children continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the ceasefire and for the protection owed Palestinian children under international law."
The report says children have sustained severe physical and mental injuries, mass trauma, orphanhood, separation, disability, repeated displacements, starvation, and the collapse of education and healthcare. Children have also been arrested and tortured in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.
