The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network is now launching an international campaign to demand world governments hold Israel accountable for its war crimes against Palestinian and Lebanese children.
The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network, along with its international counterparts, is now launching an international campaign to demand that world governments hold Israel accountable to the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child—principles which prioritize the inherent right to life and uphold the best interests of all children.
The genocidal intentions of the Zionist settler-colonial state, recognized by many as Israel, (hereinafter referred to as Israel), are made clear in various documented statements by its officials. The former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has derogatorily referred to Palestinians as “human animals”, while Israeli President Isaac Herzog has stated, “there are no innocent civilians in Gaza”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has further inflamed this narrative by comparing Palestinians to Amalekites and describing the situation in Gaza as a struggle between the “children of light and children of darkness”. In 2015, a Facebook post by Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s described Palestinian children as “little snakes” to justify their collective punishment. (more...)
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