For the sake of children, we have to demand an end to the violence and adherence to international law in Palestine. As a Palestinian, I can assure you if there’s one thing Palestinians aren’t short of, it’s words. There are still some words we can and must fall back on, words that anchor us to our collective humanity. In September, a Save the Children report found that 2023 had become the deadliest year for Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank on record. The number of children killed in the first nine months of the year was triple the number killed in 2022- itself previously the deadliest year on record since 2005.
