Reasonable to believe targeted killing of children part of larger plan for genocide of the Palestinian people, Justice Muralidhar says

Justice S. Muralidhar, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, discusses the United Nations panel’s report on crimes committed on Palestinian children by Israeli security forces resulting in the death of at least 20,179 and injury of 44,143 children since the October 7, 2023 armed incursions by Hamas. The former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and currently a senior advocate practising in the Supreme Court of India, in an interview with The Hindu, explains findings of systematic targeting of the most vulnerable Palestinian populations — women, children, and the elderly.

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