UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has said that Palestinian children are, “in particular, targeted in so many depraved ways — through killing, maiming, starving, torture, terror, depriving them of schools, dreams, future, hope”, Al Jazeera reports.

In a post on X, she said: “Look at the totality of Israel’s conduct, in the totality of the land it unlawfully occupies, against the totality of the Palestinian people living there. And when you see how children, in particular, are targeted … you see the destructive mind and intent at work, in the realisation of a plan that comes from afar.”

Albanese was referring to an incident in which Israel’s military blocked schoolchildren from reaching the Haj Ziad Jaber School in the Jaber neighbourhood of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, by closing the road with barbed wire.