THE UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says “the unthinkable” has arrived in Gaza City, as Israel expands its assault on residential homes and displacement camps.
The director-general of Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 30 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza have been children, amounting to 28 children killed each day since October 2023.
Meanwhile, The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has written a letter to executives at major US media outlets ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and Fox, urging them to consistently broadcast footage of Israel’s attacks on Gaza, including the killing of children.
“While images of the destruction and its aftermath circulate widely on international and independent media outlets, such footage does not appear with the same frequency in mainstream American media,” CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper said.
“What’s happening in Gaza is the global story of our time. The American public deserves the opportunity to witness the full human impact of the Trump administration’s support for the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza City.”
The US has provided Israel with billions of dollars in military aid since the Gaza war began – assistance that experts say has been instrumental in the Israeli government’s nearly two-year assault on the territory.
“We urge you to show, with the consistency and urgency this moment requires, videos of the children and families suffering and dying under Israeli bombardment with American weapons, just as many independent and foreign media outlets do,” Hooper wrote in the letter.
Also, Israeli forces carried out raids in several towns across the Nablus area in the occupied West Bank, including Sebastia to the northwest and Duma and Aqraba to the south, Wafa news agency reported, citing local officials.
The mayor of Sebastia said troops storm the town almost daily, raiding homes, smashing property and forcing shops to close.
He described the latest raid as accompanied by provocations and heavy reinforcements.
In Duma, Israeli forces entered the al-Samara neighbourhood and surrounding Bedouin communities, while in Aqraba troops spread out across several areas of the town, the local village council said.
A two-day event examining the United Kingdom’s role in Israel’s war on Gaza, hosted by former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, has begun in London.
Since the start of the war in October 2023, at least 64,231 people have been killed and 161,583 wounded across Gaza. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.