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A June 2026 report from the United Nations (UN) claims that the Israeli military continues to deliberately kill children in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, despite a late 2025 truce. The UN alleges that Israeli crimes against Palestinian children in both the West Bank and Gaza meet the threshold for genocide. The UN supports their controversial accusation by claiming that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) specifically targeted young Palestinian boys, often justifying their actions with the notion that the boys are “future terrorists.” In one instance, a young child was shot in the head while leaving his home to play outside with his friends. Similarly, the UN documented an egregious case of IDF soldiers shooting a boy and then gathering around his body as he slowly bled to death. The soldiers prevented emergency services from arriving on the scene and even fired upon the boy’s mother as she tried to save her dying son. The Israeli military and the Israeli delegation to the UN strongly deny all accusations of genocide and the systematic killing of children, referring to the UN report and other similar investigative reporting as libel.