US-backed Israeli attacks on Gaza killed at least 74 children in just the first week of 2025, according to the UN’s child relief agency, UNICEF.
“Children have reportedly been killed in several mass casualty events, including nighttime attacks in Gaza City, Khan Younis, and al-Mawasi, a unilaterally designated ‘safe zone’ in the south,” UNICEF said on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, an Israeli strike on al-Mawasi in south Gaza killed five displaced children who were sheltering in tents. The IDF has repeatedly bombed al-Mawasi despite designating it as a so-called “humanitarian safe zone.”
Palestinian children are also dying due to the conditions caused by the Israeli siege and relentless bombing campaign. UNICEF said that since December 26, “eight infants and newborns have reportedly died from hypothermia – a major threat to young children who are unable to regulate their body temperature.”
Gaza health officials said in December 2023 that 17,000 children had been killed in the genocidal war, a number that does not include those missing and presumed dead under the rubble or indirect deaths caused by the siege.
Newborn babies are especially vulnerable since many have been born prematurely due to the health conditions of their mothers. Palestinian mothers in Gaza also struggle to make milk, and there have been shortages of formula and other baby products.
In October, The New York Times published accounts from American healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza, including many who worked with babies. “I worked in a neonatal ICU. Several infants died every day due to lack of medical supplies and appropriate nutrition,” said Dr. Amen Odeh, a pediatrician from Texas.
“We had to make tough decisions about which very sick baby would be on the ventilator due to lack of equipment. I saw a family bringing in their dead 3-day-old infant who had been living in a tent,” Odeh added.
Despite the slaughter of children and death of so many newborns under the siege, the Biden administration has continued to provide military aid and political support to Israel. President Biden is reportedly planning to approve one more major arms deal worth $8 billion before he leaves office.
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"Israel Killed…" Again and again. Every day. Since genocide Joe is still the Commander in Chief of the US armed forces, I wonder if he can be charged with war crimes under the UCMJ?
The system is designed so that none of their players can be held accountable by using their own legal system.
This is one of the many times we get to compare and contrast what the US spends on, say, fighting domestic fires and starting foreign ones. Priorities.
”Blessed are the peace makers!”
Add to the list: Famine!
”Where do the children play?!”…
“Western media has normalized genocide in Gaza“.
Western media is as corrupt as the politicians.
"Israel Killed 74 Children in Gaza in First Week of 2025"
waiting fr one of the site's genocidal squatters to squeal 'Happpy New Year!!!'
Human beings* are a biological species possessed of biases and prejudices, which manifest in self interest.
The self interest of human beings embodies itself in the Nation State.
The Palestinians and the recovery of Palestine or the modern re-creation of a Palestinian State is not in the self interest of the United States, China, Russia, England, Saudi Arabia, Iran, or any Nation State.
Some think and document “The Hundred Years' War on Palestine” from 1917.**
The official British government documents with the words of the elected British Government officeholders and appointed officials show the British government's intention to create a Jewish state in Palestine, with a total and deliberate disregard for the rights and interests of the Palestinian Arabs.**
A more accurate, and historically documented, is a War on Palestine starting 1798.***
The present War on The Palestinians and the recovery of Palestine or the modern re-creation of a Palestinian State will continue simply because it is in no Nation States’ self interest for the creation of a State of Palestine.
Yes! Yemen is one of the least developed countries in the world, facing significant obstacles to sustainable development, and is one of the poorest countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Yes! Hezbollah (Party of Allah or Party of God) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group, led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, until his recent murder.
Its armed strength is assessed to be equivalent to that of a medium-sized army, which is now dormant.
Political realism dictates Hezbollah is not Nation States in relation to Israel and, its benefactor and mirror image, the United States, both of whom possess nuclear arsenals.
To some, a minor of Nations, of so-called "Western Nation States" do not consider Yemen a Nation State.
The Palestinians and a Palestinian State are in no one’s self interest.
dennis hanna
*Human beings are born with 24 different DNA types in the human genome.
The human being evolves from his/her mother’s milk, to family socialization, to religious indoctrination, to community socialization, to education indoctrination and ultimately to individual, to community and to governmental/national self interest.
The Palestinian people are in no country’s governmental or national self interest.
The Palestinian people have been warred upon by the Hebrew mythologists self interest, the European, particularly the British, self interest, the American self interest, the Israeli self interest and the Arab self interest.
The ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people will continue until it is complete.
That’s the history; that’s current affairs and that’s the future.
**The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
by Rashid Khalidi
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.
** “The Palestine Papers: 1917-1922: Seeds of Conflict”.
by Doreen Ingrams
The official British Government records in this book prove clearly that during and after the First World War British Government ministers and officials intentionally rather than negligently created the groundwork for a Jewish state in Palestine, while deliberately keeping the British Government's intentions from the indigenous population of Palestinians and the surrounding countries of Arabs. The official British government documents with the words of the elected British Government officeholders and appointed officials, Ms. Ingrams shows clearly and unequivocally the deceit with which British Ministers at that time and subsequently committed themselves to the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, with a total and deliberate disregard for the rights and interests of the Palestinian Arabs. The population of Palestine at the time numbered 92 per cent Arab.
***Napoleon’s Egypt,
Invading the Middle East
by Juan Cole
Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his fascinating views of the Orient, Cole delves into the psychology of the military titan and his entourage. He paints a multi-faceted portrait of the daily travails of the soldiers in Napoleon's army, including how they imagined Egypt, how their expectations differed from what they found, and how they grappled with military challenges in a foreign land. Cole ultimately reveals how Napoleon's invasion, the first modern attempt to invade the Arab world, invented and crystallized the rhetoric of liberal imperialism.
Napoleon and the French army left Egypt in 1799, but the French remained in Egypt for another two years, until they finally surrendered to the British on Sept. 2, 1801 turning over, among other things, the prized Rosetta stone.
Before he departed in October 1799, Napoleon captured Gaza and Jaffa (part of modern Tel Aviv), but the roguish Sir Sidney Smith engineered a huge British victory at Acre, the city known as “the key to Palestine.”
And yet only a couple of decades later, the British government handed all key strategic points over to Arab forces as they left their “mandate,” and provided officers for Jordan’s Arab Legion and air surveillance for Egypt’s air force in an attempt to ensure Israel didn’t continue to exist.
People citing the Balfour Declaration, oddly, almost always seem to leave that part out.
"We're Human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill, today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill, today."
Robert Hamner, A Taste of Armageddon (Star Trek Fotonovel #4)
This article has as its source a UN report. If you check the UN report, it has no source. It presumably is Hamas – the same organization that is at war with Israel.
In a war, misinformation is common, which is why we need a reliable source for these claims. This article has none. Of course, the article headline treats an unsourced, unverified claim as fact. It doesn't even say "According to report" or "is claimed by Hamas".