The United Nations has again blacklisted Israel for committing grave violations against Palestinian children. The U.N. report also says violence against children in war zones reached unprecedented levels in 2024, with the highest violations committed by the Israeli army in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Meanwhile UNICEF warned Thursday malnutrition among children in Gaza is “rising at an alarming rate.” More than 5,000 children under the age of 5 were treated for acute malnutrition amid Israel’s near-total blockade of aid. This is a Palestinian mother of four.

Hind Al-Nawajha: “You either come back carrying food for your children and they will be happy, or you come back in a shroud, or you go back upset without food and your children will cry. This is life, we are being slaughtered, we can’t do it anymore. …Open the aid institutions for the people, open them, enough victims, enough death, enough. See, see, see, they are shooting randomly, and we’re by the sea. When we go to get aid, our children start crying. They can’t take it.”