GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Government Media Office in Gaza has accused the Israeli army of committing a “shocking crime of genocide against childhood” over the past 20 days, reporting that 490 children have been killed in what it describes as a series of “barbaric attacks”.
“We are facing a bitter reality in which entire families are being wiped out, childhood is buried under the rubble of homes, and a new dark history is being written in the record of crimes that will not be forgotten,” it said in a statement issued on Sunday.
“The numbers alone are sufficient to confirm the existence of a systematic and deliberate policy of killing Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the Israeli occupation army.”
According to the statement, the overall death toll from Israeli air strikes during this period has reached 1,350.
The Office has condemned the Israeli occupation’s systematic crimes against children and civilians throughout the ongoing campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people. It called on the international community, including all international, legal, and humanitarian organizations, as well as governments around the world, to denounce these atrocities.
The Office held Israel, the United States, and other states complicit in the genocide — including the United Kingdom, France, and Germany — fully responsible for the continued massacres targeting children in the Gaza Strip. It further asserted that their complicity represents a lasting stain on their historical record.
The statement added: “The continued shameful international silence and failure to hold the occupation accountable clearly constitute complicity in a genocide taking place in full view of the world.”
The Government Media Office urged the international community, human rights organizations, and international courts to take immediate and urgent action to halt the bloodshed and launch serious investigations into the crimes committed against children and civilians.
It concluded: “The memory of humanity will never forgive the world’s silence, just as the souls of the innocent children — wrongfully taken — and the blood that cleansed the shame of the apathetic will not be forgotten.”
