UN commission alleges Israel has targeted Palestinian children since 2023

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : In a statement, Israel's mission in Geneva described the latest report as a defamatory advocacy report.
40% : In a 94-page report titled "The Essence of Childhood Has Been Destroyed": Israel's deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 7 October 2023, the commission examined alleged violations and crimes affecting Palestinian children between 7 October 2023 and 31 March 2026.
31% : " The findings build on an earlier report released by the commission in September, which concluded that Israel committed genocide in Gaza and that senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, incited the acts.
31% : Israel rejected those allegations.
31% : "Israel dismisses this libellous sham," the mission said, arguing that the report ignored what it described as "the brutal tactics of Hamas.
25% : Trump criticises Israel's campaign in Lebanon The report also recalled that the commission had previously examined violations committed against Israeli children during the 7 October 2023 attacks and found that Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including against Israeli children and child hostages.
18% : An Independent International Commission of Inquiry established by the United Nations Human Rights Council has accused Israel of committing grave violations against Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.