They were not collateral damage. They were the target. And we knew. And we watched. And we supplied the weapons. And we vetoed the resolutions. And we called it self-defense.— The Verdict History Will Record

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Let us begin with the one sentence that every Western foreign minister, every White House spokesman, every European Union spokesperson has refused to utter in 18 months of slaughter:

Israel is killing children. Deliberately. Systematically. With our weapons. With our money. With our diplomatic cover. And we are letting it happen.

That is the sentence. It is not propaganda. It is not antisemitism. It is not a conspiracy theory circulated on fringe websites. It is the documented, verified, cross-referenced conclusion of UNICEF, the World Health Organization, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Court of Justice, The Lancet, and — since January 2026 — Israeli military sources themselves, who finally accepted the Gaza Ministry of Health’s death count.

More than 21,289 children confirmed killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023. More than 44,500 children injured, many permanently. More than 172 children killed in Lebanon in six weeks of renewed war. At least 254 children killed in Iran since February 28, 2026, including more than 165 schoolgirls killed in a single strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab. More than 50,000 children killed or injured across the region in less than thirty months.

This is not war. This is not self-defense. This is not a tragic but unavoidable byproduct of complex military operations in densely populated areas. This is the systematic, industrial-scale extermination of Arab children, underwritten by the United States of America, enabled by the cowardice of Europe, and executed by the state of Israel with a precision and consistency that leave no room for the word ‘accident.’

This text will not be diplomatic. Diplomacy, in the face of what has been committed, is obscenity.

The story that Israel and its Western sponsors tell begins on October 7, 2023. In their telling, a civilized, democratic state — a beacon of Western values in a turbulent region — was attacked without warning by savage terrorists, and responded, regrettably but necessarily, with military force. Everything that came before is erased. Everything that happened after is justified.

Source: Global Research