'The world stands
disgraced' - Israeli shelling of school kills at least 15
• UN condemns IDF
attack on sleeping children as violation of international law The
Guardian
The Fourth Geneva Convention
contains a number of articles which provide special protection to children. The
events of two world wars, clearly established the need for special protection
to children; that “children shall be the object of special respect and shall be
protected against any form of indecent assault. The Parties to the conflict
shall provide them with the care and aid they require, whether because of their
age or for any other reason.
Wars kill people,
including teachers in their classrooms, nurses in their hospitals, and farmers
in their fields. But when children die in the hail of steel soldiers direct at
one another there is a special kind of obscenity. Children have no agency, not
even the slightest shred of the responsibility or complicity that adults to one
degree or another may possess.
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