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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Yes, @UNICEF eagerness to lie about Israel is "kind of obscene"

The executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund on Sunday decried debates over the extent of hunger in Gaza as “kind of obscene.”

Speaking to host Margaret Brennan on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” UNICEF’s Catherine Russell said: “To me, it’s kind of obscene that we are having these conversations arguing about whether the methodology works or not. We know children are dying, right? I am tired of a discussion about, well, are we giving the right information or not?”

She's referring to the flawed IPC report claiming that parts of Gaza are officially famine-stricken.

IPC makes its determinations based on standards - and if the methodology is flawed, then their conclusions are flawed. Which means that there is no famine.

Like "genocide" and "apartheid" and "occupation," "famine" has a specific definition. If you change the definition to make it fit for Israel, then you are simply a liar. It is a big deal.

No one is claiming that children aren't dying in Gaza, a small percentage because of a lack of food. But when the definition of famine says that hundreds of children should be dying a day, and the numbers aren't close to that, then someone is lying.

To Russell, facts don't matter. She's tired of being held to any standards of truth. If she wants it to be called a famine, she can call it a famine. If she wants to say that thousands of kids died from malnutrition, even though it isn't true, she doesn't want to be contradicted. Because insisting on truth is, to her, "obscene."

What is obscene is UNICEF's leaders routinely lying to incite against Israel.

In March 2024, Russell was also on Face the Nation where she claimed that over 13,000 children had been killed in Gaza.

But the Palestinian Health Ministry at the time said that the number was roughly half that amount. The only source for the 13,000 was Hamas.

That was good enough for UNICEF.

It did the same last October, inflating the number of dead children by 6,000 based on Hamas figures - again contradicting the Gaza health ministry.

In March 2024, UNICEF's spokesperson made up a brand new international law just for Israel.

UNICEF even lies to children, with UNICEF Australia creating a guide to the conflict that is filled with things that are simply not true.

Thanks to Catherine Russell, we now know that these aren't mistakes. She made it very clear on national television that UNICEF must not be held to any standards of truth whatsoever, that lies are UNICEF policy, and anyone who insists that a UN agency gives out accurate information is "obscene."

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UNICEF teaches anti-Israel propaganda to children

UNICEF Australia has a webpage called "A child-friendly guide to the Gaza-Israel crisis."

Here is its summary:

At school, home or on social media, you may have heard people talking about Israel and Gaza and have wondered, what is happening?
The situation in Gaza and Israel is very complex and has been going on since the mid-20th Century, which is why many adults also find it hard to understand what is happening.

Essentially, there are two groups of people: the Israelis (the people who live mostly in Israel) and the Palestinians (the people who live mostly in the Gaza Strip and another area known as the West Bank).

The Israelis and the Palestinians both have a very strong connection to the land. They have tried to make agreements to share the land, but these agreements fall apart, and the fighting starts again about who gets to live where.

See? Hamas only murdered 1,200 Israeli citizens because the agreement to share the land fell apart! Don't even think it could have been the other way around!

The page shows about nine pictures, of children and war damage. Every single picture is from Gaza, the West Bank or Lebanon. Not one from the kibbutzim in the south of Israel, not a word about terrorism or rockets.

It ends with five fast facts about the conflict. The first one, when analyzed, is enough to show UNICEF's anti-Israel bias.

How many things can one sentence get wrong?

There is no State of Palestine.

Even if you accept there is such a state, it didn't exist in the mid-20th century.

If you claim that this is only a semantic issue, and the Arabs who lived in the region were effectively citizens of the State of Palestine, then what happened in the mid-20th century that began the conflict?

If Arabs in the area were part of the State of Palestine before it existed, then the Jews killed in 1920, 1921, 1929, and 1936-39 by the Arabs must have been part of the State of Israel before it existed. But that isn't part of the conflict, according to UNICEF, because 1921 or 1929 are not "mid-20th century."

So the beginning of the conflict was the founding of the State of Israel. Without Israel, UNICEF is telling its child readers, there would be no conflict! Who cares about the Jews killed by Arabs before Israel was reborn? It has nothing to do with it!

This is the baked in anti-Israel bias at the UN and many other organizations. The authors of this page no doubt believed that they were giving a dispassionate, even-handed simplification of the conflict, but their choice of photos and words show nothing of the sort. This is a subtle but unmistakable way to teach children that Israel is the problem.

There is yet another problem with this single sentence. Since the page is about Gaza, Hamas is not framed as a separate group, but as part of the State of Palestine. UNICEF is saying Israel's war is against the State of Palestine, not Hamas.

This is hardly the only problem with this page. UNICEF airbrushes Hezbollah attacks, saying that the war in Gaza caused "tension" between Israel and Hezbollah. It does not mention that Israel was also attacked by Syrian, Iraqi and Iranian rockets. Any context of the war that might make children sympathetic to Israel is non-existent, while there is plenty to make them identify with Palestinians.

(h/t Irene)

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.@UNICEF continues to fabricate 6,000 imaginary dead children in Gaza based on nothing but Hamas press releases

As we reported in June, UNICEF's home page still claims that 14,000 children were killed in Gaza even after the Gaza health ministry changed its story and said at the time that there were less than 8,000 children killed - a number that UN OCHA had already been publishing.

One would think that UNICEF would have corrected their figures to be in line with other UN agencies over the past four months.

Oh, who are we kidding? UNICEF does fundraising based on the number of children it can claim Israel attacked, so it has no incentive to bother telling the truth.

Egypt's Youm7 interviewed UNICEF spokesman Kazem Abu Khalaf who said, “There is a deliberate targeting of children, whether by killing or wounding them. The estimates so far are that the number is close to 17,000, but there is a need for further updates.”

Where did he get the 17,000 figure from? It wasn't the Gaza health ministry. It wasn't UN-OCHA whose own count is at about 11,000.

The only source for the 17,000 figure is Hamas.

UNICEF gets its statistics straight from Hamas. Not the health ministry, not OCHA, not a trusted NGO - no, UNICEF trusts a terror group to have accurate figures.

Perhaps some reporter can do their job and, you know, ask them.

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Even today, @UNICEF and @UN_Women continue to use discredited Hamas casualty numbers

The top story on the UNICEF webpage UNICEF webpage about Gaza. It says "The conflict in the Gaza Strip is taking a catastrophic toll on children. More than 14,000 children have reportedly been killed, according to the latest estimate by the Palestinian Ministry of Health; thousands more have been injured."

Similarly, UN Women's latest article on Gaza says "over 10,000 women have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned."

But the Ministry of Health has walked back those statistics, which came from Hamas. It currently says roughly half those number of children and women have been killed. UN-OCHA updated its statistics to reflect those changes weeks ago, albeit in small print.

So why do UNICEF and UN Women still report the Hamas-created lies as truth, more than a month after even other UN agencies reluctantly admit that the numbers are wrong?

It is clear that the truth doesn't matter to these UN agencies. They want to make Israel look as monstrous as possible, and if that means relying on a terror group that murders women and children in cold blood, that is fine.

Today, AP made a tentative step to correct the record. The article is far from perfect and doesn't note that the health ministry is parroting unsourced Hamas claims of women and children killed. But hopefully other media will do their own analyses of the data and finally admit what we've known all along - their claims of civilian deaths in Gaza come from Hamas propaganda and not from any actual counting of victims.

Will the UN and NGOs then correct their own reporting? It seems highly unlikely. UN Women and UNICEF need the higher numbers to justify their fundraising and public relations, so they have strong incentive to pretend the Hamss numbers are the real ones.

Both these agencies are making a huge mistake. While much of the UN is obviously politicized against Israel, agencies dedicated to protecting children and women have been assumed to be more honest and less political because of their humanitarian objectives. Every day they refuse to correct their own increasingly obvious errors, they risk appearing to care more about demonizing Israel than protecting children and women.

And then it will be the women and children themselves who be hurt by their loss of credibility.

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More evidence that Hamas makes up statistics and the UN launders them to make them sound legit

Besides the daily, quite exact-sounding casualty numbers, Hamas also regularly releases other Gaza statistics.

One of them is the number of people missing, presumably under rubble.

In November, the number rose from 6,500 to 7,000. It briefly spiked to 7,500 before settling in at exactly 7,000 in every single report from December to the end of April. Then, days later, it jumped up another 3,000 to 10,000, where it has stayed since then.

Here's the chart.

Keep in mind that there is no mechanism for reporting missing people. Yet Hamas claimed that from December to March 70% of the missing were women and children. If they know that detail, that means they should know the exact count

Hamas dropped that 70% claim in April but then decided that the 7,000 number was getting old and chose to add a few thousand more, even though there were no major air raids with hundreds of people stranded under rubble in that timeframe.

The UN's OCHA dutifully transcribed Hamas' made up numbers, showing the rise from 7,000 to 10,000 missing between May 1 and May 3.

In this case, the additional 3,000 was laundered through a circuitous route.

OCHA is quoting the GMO (Gaza Media Office) and PC (Protection Cluster.)

The Protection Cluster sounds like a legitimate UN organization, so what was its source? It was OCHA again! OCHA on May 1 quoted Palestinian Civil Defense that 10,000 were suddenly missing - which is, of course, Hamas!

So the UN OCHA quoted another UN agency, which got the numbers from OCHA itself, which got them from Hamas. But this way it sounds like they got them from a reliable source.

It is not the first time we've seen the UN play this particular game.

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More evidence that Hamas lies on casualties - and @UNICEF @UNICEFchief believes them

Two interesting things have happened recently with the statistics issued by the Gaza ministry of health.

Up until March 13, the MoH statement said - every day - that 72% of all those killed in Gaza since October 7 had been women and children, a patently ridiculous number as we've shown previously.

They no longer make that claim in their daily reports. And they seem to have dropped that claim just when articles started to appear that challenged the numbers as being essentially impossible statistically.

There's been another recent change in how the ministry reports deaths in the past week or so. They used to divide up their numbers into two categories, those that they counted themselves in hospitals and those that they received from "trusted media sources" - which is the Hamas media office.

For several weeks, the ministry has been asking people to go online to register the deaths that the ministry might not have direct knowledge of. I do not believe that they are trying to lie here: the ministry itself seems to want to count accurately, but Hamas forces it to issue the counts of total deaths that are much higher than they can verify themselves.

The latest detailed report from the Gaza ministry of health came out on April 4. Between the deaths they counted directly and those that people filled out fully in the online forms, the total number of deaths they count is 21,720 - 18,934 that they counted themselves and 2,786 from relative filling out their forms.

Here's their breakdown:

Women 4577

Children 7007

Seniors 1628

Men 8508

Total 21720

But the total that Hamas forces them to say, as of April 4, was 33,037 - a difference of 11,317 that they did not count directly or through the relatives.

If we assume that the 72% women and children casualties claimed has remained consistent from March 13 to April 4, that means that of the over 12,000 of those 11,317 deaths are women and children.

Which is literally impossible.

If we give the benefit of the doubt and say that every single death between March 13 (when they stopped making the 72% claim) and April 4 was a fighting-age male, that still means that 97% of the deaths that do not come directly from the MoH must be women and children.

Which is nearly as impossible.

Yet despite the numbers not adding up, UN agencies continue to parrot the Hamas figures. UNICEF's chief Catherine Russell tweeted that over 13,000 children had "reportedly" been killed, thousands more than the real number.

Most of the reporting of this war are based on lies. And it is outrageous.

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Another new international law just for Israel by @UNICEF's spokesperson @1James_Elder - while Hamas violations are ignored

In December, the New York Times quoted an "expert:"

“Under international humanitarian law, the place where you evacuate people to must, by law have sufficient resources for their survival — medical facilities, food and water,” said James Elder, a spokesman for the United Nations Children’s Fund.

“That is absolutely not the case,” he said.

Other anti-Israel sites ran with his words, saying that Israel asking Gazans to evacuate is a "crime against humanity."

There is no such law mentioned in any IHL database I could find.

Perversely, it is Israel's adherence to international humanitarian law that is being called a violation of IHL.

The most relevant rule is IHL Rule 24: "Each party to the conflict must, to the extent feasible, remove civilian persons and objects under its control from the vicinity of military objectives." This is related to Rule 20: "Each party to the conflict must give effective advance warning of attacks which may affect the civilian population, unless circumstances do not permit."

The entire point of the rule is to save civilian lives. Evacuations from the area where there is a military target isn't against humanitarian law - it is an obligation!

The alternatives are to bomb the civilians or to end a war anytime terrorists use civilians as human shields. Neither of those are international humanitarian law. Israelis doing exactly what is required under IHL, to the letter. That makes people like James Elder angry because they want IHL to be handcuffs on only one side.

Nothing in IHL says that a war must stop if the civilians cannot go to a place that has proper medical facilities and food ready for them. If that were the case, then Hamas can stop the war anytime it wants by ensuring that food and medical aid is only available right on top of their weapons caches and tunnels.

Which is exactly what Hamas tries to do!

UNICEF's seeming concern for international humanitarian law begins and ends with lying about Israeli obligations. But they are totally silent about Hamas. And many IHL rules are flaunted by Hamas every single day.

Rule 22: "The parties to the conflict must take all feasible precautions to protect the civilian population and civilian objects under their control against the effects of attacks."

Hamas does the opposite.

Rule 23: "Each party to the conflict must, to the extent feasible, avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas."

Hamas does the opposite.

Rule 96. "The taking of hostages is prohibited."

Hamas does the opposite.

Rule 97. "The use of human shields is prohibited."

Hamas does the opposite.

In all of James Elder's X timeline, he has not once condemned Hamas for any of these violations, all of which directly affect children. In fact, he has not mentioned Hamas at all. He waited until several days after October 7 to say anything, because that way he could "all lives matter" the child victims in Israel and call for a "ceasefire" to stop Israel from defending itself.

This is immorality masquerading as concern for civilians. It is an effectively pro-Hamas, pro-terror position by people who pretend to be on the side of human rights and morality.

Read every section of international humanitarian law, in the original, and not the fictional version that people like James Elder pretend to quote. Every single relevant section is being done scrupulously by Israel, and every single relevant section is being brazenly violated by Hamas.

How many NGOs and news media ever point that out?

(h/t Richard Landes)

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Now @UNICEF is laundering Hamas statistics on children deaths in Gaza, too

From Reuters:

The U.N. children's agency said on Sunday over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza in Israel's offensive, opens new tab, adding many kids were suffering from severe malnutrition and did not "even have the energy to cry."

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell did not provide a source for the child fatality figure during an interview with CBS News.

When asked if Russell was referring to the agency's own estimate or was basing the figure on reporting from authorities in Hamas-governed Gaza, a UNICEF spokesperson pointed to a press statement by the U.N. children's agency that attributed the figure to Gaza's health ministry.

It is yet another instance of Hamas statistics being laundered through UN organizations.

As I reported yesterday, the vast majority of deaths reported by the health ministry since January 1 have not come directly from hospitals but from "trusted media sources," meaning Hamas. While the ministry directly counted 890 women and children killed since January 1, it also parrots the supposed deaths of 6,000 more women and children from Hamas in that same time period.

The "trusted media sources" claim 89% of the fatalities that they count outside the MoH are women and children.

Why does UNICEF believe these numbers? Part of it is because dead Gaza kids mean more funding for UNICEF. There is no incentive to disprove the Hamas numbers, and great incentive to believe them.

But there is another side to the equation, which is the desire to believe that Israel is targeting children. UN agencies and organizations follow the theme that Israel is one of the worst human rights abusers in the world, so they will highlight any information from any source that confirms their antisemitic bias - and discount anything that contradicts it.

The entire world eagerly accepts the lies of a murderous terror group.The only reason for that is because the entire world, including the UN, thinks that Jews are less trustworthy than raping, murdering, kidnapping terrorists whose strategy is to maximize their own people's deaths.

Expect other NGOs and the media now to quote UNICEF's false statistics, that came from Hamas via a "health ministry" that routinely lies about Israel and that officially supports Hamas war crimes.

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Many UN agencies keep pretending that false Hamas casualty statistics are from other UN agencies

Earlier this week I reported that UN-OCHA claimed "9,000 women" were killed in Gaza, citing a UN Women report. The UN Women report, in turn, cited UN-OCHA for the same statistic.

The only source for this number is a terrorist group.

This statistics laundering is happening a lot within the UN.

UN-OCHA's latest report says that "According to UNICEF, 17,000 children in Gaza are currently unaccompanied or separated, constituting one per cent of the total displaced population of 1.7 million people."

The link at UNICEF says, "UNICEF estimates that at least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip are unaccompanied or separated.....Of course, this is an estimation since it is nearly impossible to gather and verify information under the current security and humanitarian conditions."

So UNICEF made up numbers based on a wild guess of how many children became orphaned or (somehow) separated from their parents, which in turn was based on faked statistics that came directly from...Hamas. But while UNICEF admitted its numbers were an "estimation" and could not be considered accurate at all, OCHA repeats them as official UNICEF stats.

Another UN agency, UNRWA, also repeats Hamas fake statistics.

UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini tried to be careful in his wording, tweeting, "Staggering. The number of children reported killed in just over 4 months in #Gaza is higher than the number of children killed in 4 years of wars around the world combined."

But after that weak caveat of admitting that the Gaza numbers are only "reported," he accepts them as proof that Israel is deliberately targeting children: "This war is a war on children. It is a war on their childhood and their future."

It is an antisemitic libel supported and spread by the UN.

WHO also unquestioningly reports the Hamas statistics as authoritative, including the completely made up statistic of over "7,780" people missing or buried under rubble, a number that has only gone up even as fighting has decreased. Has no one been uncovering bodies in northern Gaza for months? When they find a body, does the MoH subtract that from their "under the rubble" figure?

Yet since these statistics are reported by the UN, the media and NGOs feel confident to report them as originating with UN agencies instead of noting that they originally come from Hamas.

It is laundering of statistics.

But the antisemitism doesn't end there. The Hamas statistics are accepted unquestioningly, including the absurd idea that 72% of all Gazans killed are women and children. That would be, as of today, over 22,300 women and children killed.

But Israel says that 13,000 terrorists have been killed. In previous wars, Israel's estimates of terrorists killed have been proven to be accurate.

Presumably all of them are men.

It is impossible for both the Israeli and Hamas statistics to be true, since they would add up to thousands more deaths than even Hamas admits. But the UN assumes Hamas to be accurate and the IDF estimates are not considered.

Believing terrorists over Jews is another type of antisemitism we are seeing constantly during this war.

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Another child soldier that UNICEF doesn't care about

The official Palestinian Wafa news agency reports:

Today, Tuesday, a child from the town of Zababdeh, south of Jenin, was killed by bullets from the Israeli occupation.

The director of Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin, Fawaz Hammad, told Wafa that the child Othman Atef Abu Kharj (17 years old) died of injuries he sustained at dawn today, during the clashes that erupted after the storming of the town.

The description of his death by Islamic Jihad is a little different:

The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, celebrated, on Tuesday morning, the highest examples of jihad and steadfastness, its fighter son, Othman Atef Abu Kharj, one of the fighters of the deterrence unit in the Al-Quds Brigades, who rose as a martyr, God willing, during his confrontation with his mujahideen brothers.

The Brigades said in a military statement: "We are in the Al-Quds Brigades and we bid farewell to a heroic mujahid knight who is witnessed by the battlefields to confirm that the blood of the martyrs will remain fuel for the continuation of the resistance approach, and that these sacrifices that our heroic mujahideen make will not be lost, and will be a motive for the continuity of engagement and fighting, and will not be lost." We meet our enemy only with bullets and more resistance.

Interestingly, they claim that Kharj was 18 years old, while all other Palestinian media quote the ministry of health saying he was 17.

Yesterday I noted that for the first time I can recall, the UN chided Palestinian terror groups for exposing children to paramilitary "summer camps" as well as for endangering Palestinian children by placing booby traps in camps for IDF vehicles. But although the UN's OCHA-OPT closely monitors every death in the territories, they have never mentioned that terror groups like Islamic Jihad actively recruit and use child soldiers.

I cannot find any mention of Palestinian child soldiers in UNICEF reports on "the state of Palestine" either. Defense for Children International - Palestine never mentions that the children killed were members of armed groups and actively fighting.

It is undeniable that Palestinian terror groups recruit and exploit children. Last week, JCPA published a report showing how terror groups in Jenin use children as "spotters" and instruct them using Telegram channels on how they should operate.

A major reason that children are recruited is in the hope that they will be killed - because they are more valuable as "child victims" than they are as fighters. To Palestinians, children are cannon fodder, and I have yet to see a single article in Arabic media that condemns Hamas and Islamic Jihad for recruiting children.

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Horrifying: Palestinian terror groups use children to build and plant their explosives

PCHR reported on July 3 that Israeli forces shot Ali Hani Al-Ghoul in the chest, killing him. It admitted that he was a member of an armed group and said he was 20 years old.

Later, the Israel/Palestine Timeline site said that al-Ghoul was shot in the head, and that he was 17 years old.

His mother was interviewed:

His mother brought back some of her memories with her little Ali, which she will never forget; She says, "About two years ago, Ali used to come home at night, with his clothes dusty and his eyes red, and he was suffering from severe pain, which was caused by the explosive materials he was using."

"Ali was one of the resistance fighters who made explosive devices in the Jenin camp from primitive materials, but their impact was great and effective by damaging many Israeli military vehicles," according to his mother, who expressed her pride in what her son did and what his friends say about his actions that are beyond his age.

That means that Ali al-Ghoul had been building bombs since he was 15 years old.

Now, the Jenin Brigades division of Islamic Jihad have issued a video celebrating Al-Ghoul's "martyrdom" - showing him building IEDs together with other children.

It doesn't show anyone else's faces, but you can see that the hands that are stuffing explosive powder into IEDs are not those of full grown adults.

Jenin's bomb-makers are children.

Ali's mother continues: “Before Ali left the house, he carried a sack full of explosive devices on his shoulder, and later he planted them in the streets and alleys of Jenin camp with the help of his friends, who confirmed that Ali participated with them in a confrontation with the occupation from zero distance."

Palestinian terror groups recruit children to build bombs.

They encourage kids to turn their homes into bomb depots.

They instruct children to plant these bombs in the roads of Jenin where they can kill not only the children but anyone who happens to come by.

And they freely and proudly admit this.

This is not just child abuse: this is systemic and widespread child abuse that is a source of pride to Palestinians.

Now listen to the silence from UNICEF, the UN Human Rights Council, Defense for Children-International, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

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Another child mujahid, and more silence from @UNICEF and other NGOs about Palestinians recruiting children

The Palestinian Amad news site shows this photo of another "child" killed by Israeli forces as they engaged in a battle upon entering the Al-Faraa camp to arrest terrorists that the Palestinian Authority refuses to.

Hmmm. 17-year old Mahmoud al-Aidi seems to be carrying something. A laptop bag, perhaps?

Not quite.

In this case, the IDF says that al-Aidi approached them with an explosive device.

In related "child martyr" news, 14-year old Qusai Radwan Waked, who was killed Sunday, appears to have been linked to Islamic Jihad, and was referred to as a "mujahid" in the Jenin Qassam Telegram channel while wearing the PIJ headband and showing the "tawhid" hand gesture popularized by ISIS and now used by Palestinian jihadists.

The martyr, the mujahid cub, Qusai Wakada, son of the town of Al-Arqa in Jenin, who was martyred yesterday while confronting the invading occupation forces in Jenin..

Palestinian militias are recruiting children and encouraging them to attack Israeli soldiers, knowing that their deaths are worth far more in public relations value than their military skills.

And yet NGOs that supposedly care about the welfare of children have been completely silent - because that dilutes from the false narrative of Israeli forces wantonly shooting children, which is also worth far more to them in fundraising value.

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Another child militant, aged 14, appears to have been linked to Fatah (UPDATE: Islamic Jihad)

From CNN:

Israeli forces raided the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday, killing a 14-year-old boy, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said. Qusai Radwan Waked was shot in the abdomen, the ministry said.

The target of the raid was Jibril Zubeidi, who was detained, Israeli and Palestinian authorities said.

In a joint statement, the Israel Defense Forces, Border Police and Israel Security Agency said that during the raid, “armed individuals fired at the forces who responded back with live fire… Furthermore, suspects hurled explosive devices and rocks at the forces.

“We are aware of the reports regarding a number of armed individuals who got injured during the exchange of fire,” the Israeli statement said.

One Palestinian armed group, the Fatah-linked Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, is calling Waked a "heroic martyr," meaning that he was indeed involved in the battle.

But don't expect UNICEF, Defense for Children International Palestine, Human Rights Watch or Amnesty to investigate this poster to find out if Waked was indeed recruited as a fighter for Fatah.

They don't want to know.

UPDATE: It turns out he was a member of Islamic Jihad, which released this photo (h/t Adin):

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FIVE Palestinian child soldiers killed so far this year

On Wednesday, Muhammad Ali Abd Musa Muhammad Ali, 16, was killed after aiming a (fake) gun at IDF soldiers in Shuafat.

Hamas said that he was a member.

That is the fifth Palestinian child soldier killed this year - fully 25% of all the Palestinian militants killed by Israel this year have been children.

All of them were claimed as members of terror groups.

These include:

1/2 Fuad Mohammad ‘Aabed, 17 (Hamas)

1/3 Adam Essam Ayyad, 15 (PFLP)

1/5 Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16 (Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades)

1/16 Amro Khaled Al-Khumour, 14 (PFLP)

1/25 Muhammad Ali Abd Musa Muhammad Ali, 16 (Hamas)

These kids are being groomed to be cannon fodder. Some of them wrote notes to their families, meaning that they intended to be killed.

I have not seen one word from "human rights groups." about Palestinian child soldiers this year. Nothing from UNICEF. Nothing from Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Nothing from the EU. Nothing from the State Department. Nothing in the Western media.

And each "child" is promoted as an innocent victim by those who want to destroy Israel,with no fact checking.

The child soldiers is a scandal. The lack of information about them in the West (indeed, the fact that the media has not once mentioned that nearly every Palestinian killed was participating in fighting at the time) is perhaps an even greater scandal.

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