The Guardian view on the children of Gaza: when 17,000 die, it’s more than a mistake

[Right_in_Virginia]

The Guardian view on the children of Gaza: when 17,000 die, it’s more than a mistake
Israel’s military blamed the deaths of six Palestinian children on Sunday on a technical error. But a staggering toll continues to mount
The Guardian/UK, Jul 15, 2025

Sunday, an Israeli strike killed six Palestinian children – and four adults – as they queued for water in a refugee camp. The deaths of children may be the most terrible part of any war. ...

As shocking as Sunday’s deaths were, they are commonplace in Gaza: a classroom-worth of children have been killed each day since the war began. What marked them out was that so many deaths happened at once and publicly; and that Israel’s military felt obliged to acknowledge its responsibility – though without any great contrition. It claimed that a “technical error with the munition” caused it to miss its intended target and added that it “regrets any harm to uninvolved civilians”.

What does this bloodless, bureaucratic language have to do with the bloody deaths of six already traumatised children? These deaths were not a mistake. They were a tragedy – like those of the 10 children killed days before, as they queued outside a clinic. The Israeli military said, again, that it regretted any harm to civilians. And yet the bodies of children pile up. Children killed as they sheltered in former schools; children killed as they fled Israeli forces; children killed as they slept at home.

Gaza’s ministry of health says that more than 17,000 of the 58,000 Palestinians killed are children. Israel says that it seeks to minimise harm to civilians. The death toll belies that and Israeli intelligence sources told reporters last year that at times they were permitted to kill up to 20 civilians to take out even junior militants – with the preference being to attack targets when they were at home, because it was easier.


More:  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/15/the-guardian-view-on-the-children-of-gaza-when-17000-die-its-more-than-a-mistake

[Right_in_Virginia]

This is a snippet of the news not covered in the US press, but routinely carried in the press around the world.

[DefiantMassRINO]

This could end now if Hamas surrenders and returns the hostages, but they won't.

The children of Gaza are collateral damage and human shields for Hamas and the Iranian Mullahs that fund them.

Time and again, Hamas and its Gazan collaborators choose death to Israel over the lives of Gazans.

The only reason this is happening is because Hamas chose to attack Israeli's, including babies, on October 7, 2023.

I shed no tears for the homeless arsonist that set his own house on fire.

[libertybele]

This could end now if Hamas surrenders and returns the hostages, but they won't.

The children of Gaza are collateral damage and human shields for Hamas and the Iranian Mullahs that fund them.

Time and again, Hamas and its Gazan collaborators choose death to Israel over the lives of Gazans.

The only reason this is happening is because Hamas chose to attack Israeli's, including babies, on October 7, 2023.

I shed no tears for the homeless arsonist that set his own house on fire.

I feel for the 'innocents' on both sides. 

[berdie]

1. I don't have any faith in Hamas reports.

2. Israeli children have died as well.

3. If anyone believes that a war can be fought without civilian casualties, both children and adult, they are smoking wacky-tobaky.

[roamer_1]

I cry bullcrap. I would like to see how that number was derived.

[DB]

Palestinians have a long history of their "dead" dying over and over again...

[Sighlass]

Palestinians have a long history of their "dead" dying over and over again...

Yep, Palivision/Pallywood... like the fake deaths they claimed earlier at the food distribution center... All fake lies. When you take the minister of lies news at face value, you are being played.

Do some kids die, yes, when an enemy surrounds itself with kids, they knowingly put them in the line of fire.... and some of those kids are not kids, but young soldiers being the enemy at a young age.

[MeganC]

The Gaza scum effed around and now they're finding out.

A ghetto trusim: Don't start nothing and nothing will start.

[Wingnut]

This is a snippet of the news not covered in the US press, but routinely carried in the press around the world.

Show me the coffins.  Bring out your dead children and baby's.   

On the plus side, less future Jew killers if true.

[libertybele]

Palestinians have a long history of their "dead" dying over and over again...

 

[The_Reader_David]

In view of the content of the Hamas charter, which calls not for a judenrein Palestine, but for a judenrein planet Earth, and the fact that the Gazans elected Hamas to govern them in an election no one has ever claimed was not free and fair (rather than getting stuck with a fanatically Jew-hating government in a parliamentary backroom deal like the Germans did), any sorrow we feel for dead Palestinian children should be of the same sort we feel for German children who died in the Allied bombing of Nazi Germany or the Red Army's push to depopulate East Prussia of its German inhabitants, but perhaps with a little more blame leveled at their parents than in the older historical case.

[Smokin Joe]

Palestinians have a long history of their "dead" dying over and over again...

IIRC, 'Green helmet guy' kept showing up at the site of artillery impacts in Lebanon with a refrigerated truckload of corpses to plant in the debris before the Press got there, to be 'dug out' and paraded in international Media.
Propaganda is a nasty business.

[roamer_1]

IIRC, 'Green helmet guy' kept showing up at the site of artillery impacts in Lebanon with a refrigerated truckload of corpses to plant in the debris before the Press got there, to be 'dug out' and paraded in international Media.
Propaganda is a nasty business.

I remember that!

[jmyrlefuller]

When Palestinians outbreed their Western counterparts by more than double, it's more than a fluke, it's a breeding program.

[Right_in_Virginia]

...and the fact that the Gazans elected Hamas to govern them in an election no one has ever claimed was not free and fair

A little more information on that election ---

It was in January 2006 that Gaza held what turned out to be their last parliamentary elections. Hamas won a bare plurality of votes (44 percent to the more moderate Fatah party’s 41 percent) but, given the electoral system, a strong majority of seats (74 to 45).

Fighting broke out between the two political parties. When a unity government was finally formed in June 2007, Hamas broke the deal, started murdering Fatah members, and, in the end, took total control of the Gaza Strip. Those who weren’t killed fled to the West Bank, and the territories have remained split ever since.

This split is Netanyahu's dream come true and for the next 17 years he did everything in and around his power to make sure Hamas survived.

Hamas’ absolute rule of Gaza is not what the Palestinians voted for back in 2006.  And, since the current median age of Gazans is 18, half of Hamas’ subjects weren’t even born when the election took place.

As the Gazans have known no alternative, have absorbed little information but Hamas propaganda, and have witnessed periodic outbursts of violent conflict with Israel throughout their lives, it really is impossible to know what they actually think about Hamas.