{"id":509291,"date":"2026-06-24T20:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509291\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:10:09","slug":"israel-deliberately-targeted-palestinian-children-in-gaza-u-n-commission-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/509291\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza, U.N. commission says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5OABRZZT7NDMNPDJKPIQPR5EWA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A independent U.N. commission said Tuesday that the Israeli military had deliberately targeted children in Gaza, amounting to genocide, and in the West Bank, amounting to war crimes.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"R7ZTUMR3J5ABVA64OSTDECGCEI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The commission of inquiry, which called on international bodies to hold Israeli officials to account, is composed of three senior international jurists and chaired by the former Indian judge Srinivasan Muralidhar. In earlier conclusions released in September, it said the Israeli military campaign in Gaza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/09\/16\/gaza-genocide-un-israel\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/09\/16\/gaza-genocide-un-israel\/\">met the legal definition of genocide<\/a> \u2014 a finding echoed by a growing group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/09\/01\/israel-genocide-gaza-scholars\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/09\/01\/israel-genocide-gaza-scholars\/\">genocide experts<\/a>, including some Israeli scholars and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/07\/28\/israel-gaza-genocide-accusations\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/07\/28\/israel-gaza-genocide-accusations\/\">human rights organizations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A independent U.N. commission said Tuesday that the Israeli military had deliberately targeted children in Gaza, amounting to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-509291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}