William Lindsey Apr 12

Rudy Martinez prefaces his sobering report on how children are the human cost of continuing Israeli-enacted violence in the Middle East, with the US supplying the weapons used to maim and kill children:

"This edition contains documented accounts of violence against children. The events described are not allegations."

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The Rest of the World Report | The Children

Special Report | Saturday, April 11, 2026 Hind Rajab was six years old. She spent her last three and a half hours alone in a car surrounded by the bodies of her family, on the phone with a dispatcher, waiting for an ambulance that was deliberately destroyed before it reached her. Ritaj Rihan was nine years old. She was shot at her desk in a tent classroom two days ago, during a ceasefire, in front of forty-four other children. Between them: more than 18,000 children killed in Gaza. A thirty-year documented record spanning booby-trapped toys in Lebanese villages, 1.2 million cluster submunitions fired after a UN ceasefire resolution passed, AI targeting systems that authorized civilian deaths as a statistical acceptable loss, and strikes on schools where no military target was ever found. This is not a summary of allegations. Every claim in this edition is sourced to independent investigations, UN bodies, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and wire services. The record exists. It has never produced accountability.

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 12

"They are the findings of independent investigations, United Nations bodies, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Forensic Architecture, and multiple wire services. They belong in the public record. We are publishing them here. ...

The record this edition documents spans three decades, two countries, and five distinct categories of conduct:"

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 12

"booby-trapped objects designed to attract and kill civilians in areas populated by children; indiscriminate weapons with predictable and documented child casualty rates; specific strikes on civilian locations sheltering children with no military target identified by any investigating body; an AI targeting architecture that established mass civilian death — including children’s deaths —" (continued in /4)

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 12

(continued from /3)

"as a numerically authorized byproduct; and the weaponization of food, shelter, and medical care.

Each of these, taken alone, has been documented, investigated, and formally reported."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 12

"Together they constitute a pattern that multiple UN bodies, two of the world’s leading human rights organizations, and the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court have found sufficient to establish criminal liability at the highest levels of the Israeli government.

The pattern has also produced, across thirty years, no accountability. No criminal conviction. No suspended arms transfer from the United States that held."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"No mechanism that stopped it. ...

American military aid to Israel has continued throughout the period documented in this edition. American diplomatic support has included vetoing or abstaining on UN Security Council resolutions that would have enforced the ICJ’s binding provisional measures."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 12

"The United States has not conditioned arms transfers on compliance with those measures. It has not enforced its own laws — including the Leahy Law, which prohibits US military assistance to foreign security forces credibly implicated in gross human rights violations — in relation to the units documented in this edition."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 12

"This is not a question of what American readers think about the conflict. It is a question of what they are paying for, and what has been done in their name."

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