This section documents the crimes targeting Palestinian children during the war on the Gaza Strip, including indiscriminate attacks and bombings that resulted in the death and injury of hundreds of innocent children. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated that the Gaza Strip has become the most dangerous place for children in the world, and a UNICEF official said, "A child suffering from illness in Gaza is condemned to a slow death because they cannot receive the treatment they need, and it is unlikely they will survive long enough to leave." Since October 7, 2023, Israeli occupation forces have killed more than sixteen thousand Palestinian children.

Child Hani Hani Mahmoud Qeshta
“Born in war and martyred in war.”
Doctors extracted the child Hani Hani Mahmoud Ali Qeshta from his martyred mother’s womb along with his father on October 23, 2023, following an Israeli occupation aircraft bombardment of their home in Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah without prior warning. In another strike, Israeli occupation aircraft targeted the home of Hani’s grandfather in Rafah without prior warning, resulting in the martyrdom of Hani, his two sisters, his grandfather, grandmother, aunts, uncles, his uncle’s wife, and his cousins in a horrific massacre that claimed the lives of children and women.