Reasonable to believe targeted killing of children part of larger plan for genocide of the Palestinian people, Justice Muralidhar says
Justice S. Muralidhar, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, discusses the United Nations panel’s report on crimes committed on Palestinian children by Israeli security forces resulting in the death of at least 20,179 and injury of 44,143 children since the October 7, 2023 armed incursions by Hamas.
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One of the objectives of the Commission is to find the root causes of recurrent tensions, systematic discrimination, and repression. What is driving this specific targeting of the most vulnerable sections of the population—women, children, and the elderly? The conflict can be traced in the modern era to the 1947 United Nations resolution based on the two-state framework of the State of Israel and the State of Palestine. There has always been a grievance by the Palestinian people that they were not consulted on what should constitute the territory of either state. These boiling issues have never been resolved. We have had the Nakba—the en masse exodus of Palestinian people driven from their land—and the Yom Kippur war.
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