27/06/2026
An 11-year-old boy carried his dead baby brother, Ahmed, to a hospital in Khan Younis in a blue backpack. Blood dripped from it as he walked in.
The UN commission says he is one witness to more than 20,000 Palestinian children killed, and that their deaths at the hands of Israel were not accidents.
Here is what else UN investigators documented.
A 15-year-old was holding a white flag as Israeli snipers shot him with a .338-caliber round. His brother ran to help him, and they shot him. Their mother came, and they shot her too.
An Israeli soldier shot a 16-year-old boy and then drove a tank over his body.
A 14-year-old was shot while leaving his house when there was no active fighting and no threat. He fell to the ground badly wounded. A company of Israeli soldiers surrounded him, chatting and smoking. They stood over him for 45 minutes while he bled to death.
And in Washington this week, House Democrats held a closed-door meeting. Rank-and-file lawmakers expressed alarm, not about the killing, not about the genocide finding, but about having to vote on an amendment to cut off the weapons.
They were begging leadership to protect them from the political cost of doing the right thing.
Candidates who ran explicitly against arming Israel are winning up and down the ballot, including a sweep that shocked the establishment in New York this week.
The lawmakers taking AIPAC money, assuming there's no price to pay, are starting to find out there is.
74% of Democratic voters oppose military aid to Israel.
60% of all Americans disapprove of Israel's military assault.
Voters watching children get shot by snipers while holding white flags, and lawmakers are in a back room asking AIPAC's allies in leadership how to survive the vote.
That is the $138 million at work.
An 11-year-old boy carried his dead baby brother in a backpack. No amount of AIPAC money will erase what the world has seen. And every lawmaker taking AIPAC money has blood on their hands.
