“The Israeli Defense Forces are intentionally targeting children in Gaza.” Chris Sidoti of the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory stressed the eyewitness testimony of medical experts on the ground and the evidence of nearly 22,000 identified children’s bodies in backing this conclusion of the commission’s latest report – its seventeenth in five years. At a virtual briefing on Friday early childhood advocate and YouTube creator Ms. Rachel urged governments to prioritize protecting children in conflict and called for unrestricted humanitarian aid to Gaza, where around 30% of those killed in the first two years since October 7, 2023 have been children.

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