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Trending News:The NakbaYoung Lauren Abdel Samad Withdraws From World Chess Championship to Avoid Playing IsraelisProfiling a Palestinian Prisoner: Starvation, Medical Neglect, Brain HemorrhageB’Tselem: Israel Killed 54 Palestinian Children in 2025; Its Killing The Highest Number Since 1967Palestine Slams Israeli Plans to ‘Ok’ 100 Settlements on The West BankColoring PalestineAt Day 260: Israel Violates The Ceasefire 3465 TimesESCWA: The War on Lebanon Displaces 140,000 Old PeopleWar Places Israeli Society in a Psychological Crisis – HaaretzDespite The ‘PR’ Spin Israel Still Wants to Force Palestinians to LeaveQuranic Centers Serve as ProtectionGaza’s Dead Wait For BurialThe Lebanese-Israeli Accord is War on The ResistanceWomen Mourn Their DeadPalestine in ColorHealth Ministry: 4246 Lebanese Killed, 12190 Wounded by The Israeli Aggression Since 2 MarchPost-Ceasefire: 1,038 Palestinians Killed, 3,329 WoundedIsrael Prevents The Athan in Al Ibrahimi MosqueA Relationship Turned Sour…Should Israeli Soldiers Behave This Way!UNICEF: 260 Children Killed in GazaLonging For ReturnJerusalem: 75,000 Prayed at Al Aqsa, FridayThe Wait…Old Street of Jerusalem Perk OutCarthage: Rock City of ArtKamel al Budairi: A Revolutionary, Pioneer of Palestinian Journalism‘Lebanon is The Graveyard of Israeli Prime Ministers’ – Gabi EisenkotIsraeli Settlers Set Palestinian Agricultural Lands on FireIsraeli Soldiers Throw Gas Canisters at Wedding, Arrest GroomFaces of PalestinePalestine ForeverThe Story Behind The War on IranJamil Miqdad: Restoring Quran CopiesPlans to Displace Gazans Must be Fought – HamasProtecting The Wheat Harvest From Israeli SettlersIsraeli Soldier Killed in Lebanon Hikes Up Total to 37A Gaza Horror Story – A Continual NightmareReem Arkan’s Painting Holds Jaffa in Her EyesGaza: 28,000 Widows Must Serve as Breadwinners Remains of 40 Martyrs Recovered in GazaGaza Protest: ‘Stop Israeli Ceasefire Violations’Israel Violates Gaza Ceasefire 3338 Times, Kills 1027Israel Deliberately Targeted Palestinian Children, Resulting in Genocide Atrocity – UN Commission of InquiryHezbollah Chief: Israel ‘Has No Option’ But to WithdrawIsraeli Forces Arrest 4 Palestinians in Ramallah, BethlehemIsrael Continues to Target Children – UN Report‘We Must Resist The Israelisation of Our Societies – Francesca AlbaneseKier Starmer Quits The Labour Party LeadershipIsrael Killed Raghad on The Way to SchoolTrump, Netanyahu Rift Hits Rock Bottom: View From AmmanYoungest Palestinian Doctor Gets GuinnessPalestine: 70 Killed Since The Start of 2026All For Gaza: Susan Sarandon With Misan HarrimanIn Gaza: Israel Kills 9, Wounds 41 in 24 HoursWorld Cup: Egypt Makes Ever Win Against New ZealandMeet Karimeh Abbud – First ‘Lady Photographer’ of PalestineMarriage Among The Ruins‘Displacement Steals a Person’s Life’ – Camp Palestinians in Lebanon Face Israeli BombsPoll: 92.1% of Israelis Say Iran ‘has won’ The WarIsrael is ‘Killing’ The Ceasefire on LebanonAl Jazeera Demands Israeli Officials be Punished For Killing its ReportersOlmert: Its a ‘Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing’‘Sneeze and You Might Well Get Shot’ – UNICEF Man in GazaAl Jazeera Cameraman Among 10 Palestinians Killed in GazaAl Rimawi Freed After 25 Years in JailIsraeli Battalion Officer Linked in The Killing of Little Hind Tank-Torched in Lebanon 60,000 Hold Friday Noon Prayers in Al AqsaBreaking: Four Israeli Soldiers Killed in Southern Lebanon, 17 Injured according to Hebrew mediaAmidst War 50,000 Lebanese Return HomeOn ‘Average 12 Children Are Killed…Maimed Every Day,’ – UNICEF Chief in LebanonLebanon: Israel Kills 3,884 Civilians, Injures 11,856Belgium Lawsuit: Israeli Soldiers Will be Hunted DownAll on Video: This is What Israeli Soldiers Did in Gaza!Occupation and Israeli Violence“Hay Mr Trump Israel is ‘Eating’ Into Gaza”Sheikh Naim Qassem in Defiant Mood, Calls For Israeli Withdrawal…Third Year: Israel on UN ‘Black List’ Because of Child Atrocities1 Israeli Killed, 10 Injured in South LebanonLama Khater Speaks of Abuse, Torture, in Israeli JailsOde to a HomelandThe Little Ball Unites The Big Globe!Will The US-Iran Deal Last?The Wedding, Our Wedding…Traditional Palestine‘No You Can’t See MoU With Iran’ – TrumpGuterres Praises US-Iran DealIsraeli Targeting: Euro-Med Office in Gaza Shuts DownAt 73,008 Killed Gaza Buries Its DeadTrump Ticks Off Israel in Rebuke…Three-year-old Rayan Shot Point-blankWorld Cup Through Gazan EyesYaffa 1934The A, B, C of a Post-Sanctions IranThe Orange SellerTaleb Al-Rifai No Longer a KuwaitiCeasefire And Defeat: Iran Won The War Breaking: Trump Announces Reopening of Hormuz StraitBreaking: Iran-US Reach a DealThe First Palestinian Filmmaker
UNRWA officials report that there has been a total of 453 attacks on its facilities in Gaza since 7 October, 2023. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency said its building throughout the Gaza Strip has been the subject of these attacks by Israeli warplanes and gunfire.
It added this, two thirds of the schools operated by the UN organization have been hit with 524 people sheltering in these facilities were killed.
As the war continues, Palestinian families are forced into displacement yet again, with nowhere to go. People live in destroyed buildings, facing enormous safety risks and amid the waste and rubble.
This piece of news is currently trending on the social media under different hashtags such as @UNRWA, #Gaza, @UN, #CeasefireNow
Four schools in Gaza have been directly hit in the last four days with people continuing to flee from one place to another looking for safety but nowhere is safe in Gaza.
4 schools in #Gaza have been hit in the last 4 days
People continue to flee from a place to another looking for safety, but nowhere is safe in the #GazaStrip. No school. No hospital. No @UN building
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini confirms that since the beginning of this war two-thirds of UNRWA schools in Gaza were attacked, some were bombed out and many severely damaged.
“Some have gone from safe places of education and hope for children to ocercrowded shelters and often ending up a place of death and misery,” he wrote.
“People continue to flee and be on the run in search for safety that they never find. Gaza has become an exodus on repeat,” @UNRWA@JulietteTouma to @nytimes
As new evacuation orders hit Gaza City, families face more displacement with nowhere safe to go.https://t.co/1VGQEyYXeo
“Nine months under our watch, the relentless, endless killing, destruction and despair continue. Gaza is no place for children. The blatant disregard of international humanitarian law can’t become the new normal.”
Lazzarini ends by urging for a “ceasefire now before we lose what is left of our common humanity.”
Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.
Young Lebanese chess champion Lauren Abdel Samad decided to withdraw from the World Chess Championship for the under-8s, held in Georgia, to avoid playing against Israeli players. Lauren is a distinguished player with an impressive record in chess, having won matches in the World Championship in just three minutes! Despite her young age, she took a patriotic stance after watching the news and following the actions of these individuals against her fellow Lebanese countrymen, especially children of her age.
According to her family, the move was intentional despite the consequences, with her father saying she was fully aware of the outcome but maintained a firm personal stance shaped by her awareness of Israel’s “destruction of homes and the targeting of children.”
Israeli soldiers killed 54 Palestinian children and youths in the West Bank in 2025 according to the B’Tselem organization.
In a full report it released, Monday, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights states that from 7 October 2023 to 28 June 2026, Israel killed 1,086 Palestinians in the West Bank; 241 of them children and teenagers.
It states further that nearly one in every four Palestinians killed by Israel in the West Bank in this period was a minor with B’Tselem adding that this is the highest rate of Palestinian children and teenagers killed in the West Bank since Israel occupied the territory in 1967.
“The widespread, unprecedented killing of Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank is the result of a broader Israeli policy that enables the killing of Palestinians with virtually no accountability. When the military commander of the area boasts that Israel is killing Palestinians ‘like we haven’t killed since 1967,’ he is confirming exactly that: The system does not merely back those who pull the trigger – it effectively grants them a license to kill,” the B’Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak pointed out.
The report shows that the killing of Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank is not the result of isolated mistakes or violations of military orders. It is the outcome of an Israeli policy that expands the circumstances in which soldiers are permitted to shoot and kill, including children; backs those who use lethal force; labels Palestinians killed as “terrorists” even when they posed no threat to anyone; and almost never holds the perpetrators to account.
These findings are commensurate with recent remarks by the head of the Israeli military’s Central Command, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, who boasted that Israel is killing Palestinians in the West Bank “like we haven’t killed since 1967,” and presented the high number of fatalities as an achievement.
Despite the scale of the killings, B’Tselem is not aware of a single indictment filed in Israel since October 2023 in connection with the killing of Palestinians in the West Bank. This includes cases in which the victims were children and teenagers.
The report also found that in nearly one-quarter of the cases documented by B’Tselem in 2025, Israeli forces delayed or prevented medical teams or local residents from reaching wounded children and teenagers to provide life-saving assistance. In addition, Israel is still withholding the bodies of 18 of the 54 children and teenagers killed in 2025.
The killings in the West Bank cannot be separated from Israel’s killing of more than 21,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip. By allowing Israel to kill on such a scale in Gaza without consequences, the international community has effectively given it a green light to pursue the same lethal policy in the West Bank. As long as Israel continues to enjoy near-total impunity in the world, the lives of Palestinians – including children – will remain unprotected and exposed.
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