The world professes reverence for childhood, but hollow platitudes about universal children’s rights aren’t meant for the colonized.
Illnesses that were manageable before the war are turning deadly amid “catastrophic levels” of food insecurity in Gaza, and 19 months of genocide have now led to the spread of new diseases, reaching record numbers.
The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network is now launching an international campaign to demand world governments hold Israel accountable for its war crimes against Palestinian and Lebanese children.
Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinian people has systematically targeted children in both Gaza and the West Bank. The result is a war against an entire generation.
When children are present in a time of genocide, they will always be the most vulnerable, the most affected, and the most in need of our protection. They will need pediatricians, such as myself, to act en masse and say unequivocally: ceasefire now.