'Kids aren't terrorists': UN Independent Commission denounces killing of children in Gaza

"Kids aren't terrorists." This is what a member of an independent UN commission had to say about children being killed in Gaza. Speaking at a press briefing, Navi PIllay and Chris Sidoti - members of The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel - condemned the number of child deaths in Gaza amid Israeli strikes in the Palestinian enclave. Sidoti noted that 38 Israeli children were killed on October 7 last year, but at least 13,319 Palestinian children have since died in Israeli attacks. He also warned that Israel's brutal war on the enclave risks turning the occupied Palestinian territories into a "terrorism creation factory" over the coming decades. Meanwhile, Pillay urged global leaders to change their approach to both Israel and Palestine, insisting on a distinction between occupier and occupied and following international law by withholding military and political support for the occupation.