An Israeli strike killed six Palestinian children and four adults as they queued for water in Gaza, highlighting the ongoing deaths of children in conflict. Despite Israel’s claims of aiming to minimize harm, over 17,000 of the 58,000 Palestinians killed are children. The Israeli military attributes the deaths to a technical error, yet such normative violence occurs routinely, with tragic consequences overshadowing any bureaucratic regret. The humanitarian crisis includes children killed in various circumstances, revealing the grievous toll of war on the youngest and most vulnerable.
The deaths of children may be the most terrible part of any war, the knowledge of lives ended when they had barely begun, severed in an instant.
What marked them out was that so many deaths happened at once and publicly; and that Israel's military felt obliged to acknowledge its responsibility without great contrition.
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