Defense for Children International – Palestine, 19.12.2024
Ramallah, December 19, 2024 – Palestinian children faced an unprecedented assault on their lives and futures as Israel’s genocidal campaign escalated across the occupied Palestinian territory this year.
Israeli forces killed and maimed thousands of Palestinian children and forcibly displaced even more, while deliberate Israeli policies of starvation and medical deprivation created catastrophic humanitarian conditions. Israeli attacks erased entire families in Gaza, famine and disease spread under siege, and Palestinian children endured relentless airstrikes, forced displacement, and trauma.
In the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Israeli forces intensified home demolitions and detentions marked by systemic torture and abuse. Israeli forces and settlers killed, on average, one Palestinian child every four days in the occupied West Bank in 2024, an escalation made possible by decades of impunity…