Save the Children UK: Palestinian children are 'someone's everything, their entire universe'
The charity referred to the killing of six children waiting on water on Sunday, as well as the killing of eight children killed while queuing for nutritional supplements outside of a clinic as examples of children being killed in Israeli airstrikes.
'These children have names, they had hopes and dreams for the future," the charity added. "They are someone's everything, their entire universe. We refuse to allow their suffering to become normalised".
It condemned the UK Government as "complicit" and urged it not o be an "ally to Israel's atrocities".
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