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Srinivasan Muralidhar: The trauma of Palestinian children

Srinivasan Muralidhar: The trauma of Palestinian children

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Jugal Purohit speaks to Srinivasan Muralidhar on evidence, facts and the rule of law

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‘When it comes to humanitarian crisis, we should not allow
children's future to be subject to geopolitics. We can't say that
there are politically compulsions as a result of which we are
allowing children to die of starvation. We can't say there are
political compulsions because of which we are allowing children
to die of want of medical aid. So the request before the Security
Council was this. Cannot all countries agree on the minimum norms
of humanitarian aid?’

Jugal Purohit speaks to Srinivasan Muralidhar, a lawyer turned
judge in India for over four decades, in November 2025, he was
appointed by the UN to lead an independent International
Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory,
including East Jerusalem, and Israel.

The commission examined alleged Israeli violations against
Palestinian children from the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza
in October 2023 to October 2025. In June 2026 it published its
94-page report.

Israel did not cooperate or provide information to the
commission. It rejected the report and disputed its conclusions
after publication.

The report found that Israel had deliberately targeted
Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against
humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, as well as war crimes
in the occupied West Bank.

Srinivasan Muralidhar talks about how the commission documented
and verified the evidence of violations against children, the
challenges it faced in establishing the facts, and the key
conclusions it reached in its report.

This episode of The Interview contains discussion of the killing
of children and other consequences of conflict.

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Presenter: Jugal Purohit Producer: Farhana Haider Editor: Justine
Lang

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(Image: Srinivasan Muralidhar. Credit: BBC)