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"I decided in 2023 to dedicate my third report to children, using a word from the English language that vividly describes the Palestinian reality: unchilding, or “deprived of childhood.” The choice of this theme was rooted in the hope that showing what life was really like for a child in Palestine, along with statistical and legal information, could help the public better understand the gravity of the situation."

"Em 1947, a Assembleia Geral [da ONU] aprovou (...) o plano de partilha que previa a divisão da Palestina em dois Estados, atribuindo cerca de 55% do território ao futuro Estado judaico (apesar de os judeus constituírem menos de 35% da população e serem proprietários de apenas 6% da terra).

[Hoje, 15 de Maio, assinalam-se os 78 anos da Nakba ('catástrofe'), o início da limpeza étnica na Palestina]

"Impartiality is not about pretending not to have an opinion in the face of atrocities, or about assuming you have to maintain an equidistant position between two opposing parties, even if their positions are structurally & historically unequal & when there is one party that is occupying, plundering, & oppressing while the other is being occupied, plundered, & oppressed, triggering disastrous mechanisms of violence."

"I would like to point out that, first of all, if you go so far as to bomb a bakery, if you manage to kill tens of thousands of children, to mutilate or make orphans of ten times as many, it is evident that such actions are not in line with the stated objective of freeing hostages or eliminating Hamas, however dangerously vague such a purpose may be."