The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network, in collaboration with its international counterparts, is launching an urgent campaign demanding that world governments hold Israel accountable to the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prioritizes the inherent right to life and upholds the best interests of all children.

In Lebanon, since October 4, 2024, Israeli aggression has claimed the life of at least one child on a daily basis, with many children injured. Although many children have physically survived the prolonged bombings, they are experiencing severe psychological distress due to the surrounding turmoil. According to a report by UNICEF, numerous children in Lebanon are showing concerning symptoms of emotional, behavioral, and physical distress.

Save the Children International, in its October 2024 report, has observed that one year of Israeli bombardment has shattered childhoods in Gaza. The occupied Palestinian territory, specifically Gaza, is the deadliest place on earth to be a child. Every day, children face violence, fear, loss, displacement, hunger and devastation. Those who survive are being stripped of their childhood. The longer the war continues, the harder it’ll be to piece their lives back together.

In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinian children face escalating violence and displacement due to Israeli attacks and brutal Israeli settler violence. Since October 2023, Israel has killed three times as many Palestinian children compared to the year before. A Palestinian child is being killed by Israel every two days on average.

Sign our petition and demand protection for Lebanese and Palestinian children.

Please circulate this petition widely.

NB: If you reside in the United States, you will be given the option to take further action after you sign this petition. 

Individual Endorsements 

Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei MD
Dr. Omar Abdel Mannan MD
Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah MD
Dr. Samah Jabr, MD
Professor Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, PhD

Endorsing Organizations

*Defense of Children International-Palestine
*Doctors Against Genocide
*Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council
*The International Palestine-Mental Health Network
*Visualizing Palestine