The Rest of the World Report | The Children

The Rest of the World Podcast · Jul 18, 2026 · 33m

Content warning: this piece documents the killing of children. Details are graphic. What follows is sourced to UN bodies, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and independent investigators, not allegation. THE CHILDRENA six-year-old girl spent three and a half hours on the phone with a dispatcher, surrounded by her dead family in the back seat of a car, waiting for an ambulance that was hit by a tank shell before it reached her. That was January 2024. In April, during an active ceasefire, a nine-year-old was shot at her desk in front of forty-four classmates. In the three months since…