Children in the West Bank including East Jerusalem are not spared. According to @UNICEFchief @UNICEF: - Every two days a Palestinian child is killed in the West Bank. - More than 140 Palestinian children have been killed since the war started just over 9 months ago. - This is a huge increase of 250% in comparison to the first 9 months before the war. These are not numbers. These are children. Lives cut short. In the past months, there’s been a surge of Israeli Security Forces operations in the area + confrontations with Palestinian Armed groups including & especially in camps for Palestine Refugees. A child is a child, they have nothing to do with wars and conflicts. They must be protected at all times.

#Gaza 4 schools hit in the last 4 days. Since the war began, two thirds of @UNRWA schools in Gaza have been hit, some were bombed out, many severely damaged. Schools have gone from safe places of #education & hope for children to overcrowded shelters and often ending up a place of death & misery. Nine months in, under our watch, the relentless, endless killings, destruction and despair continue. Gaza is no place for children. The blatant disregard of international humanitarian law cannot become the new normal (read more in essay👇). Ceasefire now before we lose what is left of our common humanity. #CeasefireNOW nytimes.com/2024/05/30/opini…