Documenting Israel's Killing of Palestinian Children

Between October 2023 and mid-2025, Israeli forces killed more than 17,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip. That number is the floor.

This book is the documentary record of what was done to those children - incident by incident, name by name where the public record permits - built to the standards of human rights documentation. Every factual claim is footnoted. Every named incident is backed by a per-incident dossier. Every named child meets a rule designed to protect the child rather than the book.

The hospitals. Al-Shifa. Kamal Adwan. Al-Nasr Children's Hospital. The premature infants laid on adult beds for body heat when the generators failed. The mass graves in the courtyards, bodies with medical tubing still attached.

The schools. 94.7% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. UNRWA shelters struck - every one on the deconfliction list, coordinates shared with the Israeli military in advance.

The famine. "No electricity, no food, no fuel" - the Israeli Defence Minister's own words, October 9, 2023. Yazan al-Kafarneh, ten years old, dead at ten kilograms.

The snipers. Hind Rajab, six, on the phone for three hours in the back seat of a car surrounded by the bodies of her family. 335 bullet impacts on the car and the ambulance sent to rescue her.

The detention. Children stripped, blindfolded, zip-tied, disappeared into Israeli custody. The first Palestinian child documented to have died in Israeli detention.

The architecture. The AI targeting systems - Lavender, Where's Daddy?, Habsora. The 2,000-pound bombs. The supply chain from the United States.

The legal record. The ICJ's provisional measures orders. The ICC arrest warrants against the Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister. The Genocide Convention framework, tested against the documented facts.

The named children. Not a wall of names. Portraits - each one as carefully made as the documentary record allows. Because each of them was a person.

Sources include the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, B'Tselem, DCI-Palestine, Médecins Sans Frontières, Forensic Architecture, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, The Lancet, Haaretz, +972 Magazine, and the journalists of Gaza - more than 170 of whom have been killed since October 2023.

"Children were killed; children were not 'lost,' and they did not 'die.' Israeli forces killed them, in identified strikes, with identified weapons, under identified chains of command."

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