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2025 January

2025-01-24 PEPFAR was designed to implement life-saving HIV treatment services for pregnant and breastfeeding women, and orphans. The Trump administration cut funding for treatment to pregnant and breastfeeding women, orphans and vulnerable children. GOP members like Senator Kennedy were upset because some of the lifesaving care went to homosexuals, transgenders, and intersex patients, calling it “sick-bucket stuff”. After cuts were made, patients who normally received care for free no longer could reach care, and orphans like 14-year-old Mande Andrew died because of them.

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/update-lives-lost-usaid-cuts

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-03-09/a-year-after-usaid-cuts-local-groups-say-impact-on-humanitarian-work-has-been-devastating

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/the-human-cost-one-year-after-the-us-took-a-chainsaw-to-global-health/#:~:text=Death%20tracker,$1trillion%20by%20last%20October.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html

2025 July

2025-07-14 Members who were left in USAID reached out to the Trump administration to ask for release of food stocks intended to feed 30,000+ starving children. The administration ignored the requests for weeks, allowed the food stock to expire, then announced it would incinerate the food. It was roughly 500 metric tons of food they allowed to spoil then incinerated, rather than feed hungry children. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/16/usaid-food-for-nearly-30000-hungry-kids-to-be-destroyed-official

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-aid-workers-lobbied-weeks-save-food-stocks-destruction-after-trump-cuts-2025-07-16/

2025 October

2025-10-20 Israeli soldiers shot and killed 9-year-old Mohammad Bahjat Mohammad Hallaq in the head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYWFsTrquPs

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQCH6GzDBDH/

https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_fatally_shoot_nine_year_old_palestinian_boy_playing_football

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/10/25/they-killed-his-childhood-west-bank-family-mourn-child-killed-israel

2025-10-25 PBS covered a story about how nurse Agnes Nambozo scales a 1000-foot ladder to work every day to reach the children in a remote part of Uganda to administer vaccines and life-saving care, and now that USAID has been dismantled she must also cover the work of several other people who, because of the Trump administration, are no longer available to provide aid.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/meet-the-nurse-in-uganda-who-climbs-a-1000-foot-ladder-to-save-lives

https://www.medangel.org/1000-foot-ladders-in-uganda/#:~:text=Agnes%20Nambozo%2C%20a%20Ugandan%20nurse,approximately%2050%20patients%20per%20visit.

https://nurse.org/news/uganda-nurse-climbs-ladders-to-save-lives/

2025 November

2025-11-20 Israeli forces killed a 15-year-old Palestinian Jaja Dullah. Video shows Israeli forces shoot the child in the back, then stand around and watch the child struggle in agony as he bled to death for over 30 minutes before finally dying.

VIDEO (DISTURBING, USE CAUTION) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7oOnkZvqQE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqwv9vvzx9o

2025 December

2025-12-17 After the Trump administration shut down USAID, reporters found that in Kenya where they relied on USAID mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed and pregnant women were so desperate for food they were eating mud.

https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

2026 January

2026-01-16 Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 2-year-old Palestinian baby in the head outside Jenin.

https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/posts/palestinian-child-shot-dead-by-israeli-troops-in-occupied-west-bank/1337781241729560/

https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_fatally_shoot_2_year_old_palestinian_girl_in_the_head_near_jenin

https://www.btselem.org/firearms/20250317_the_killing_of_a_two_year_old_and_injuring_her_mother_and_aunt_in_muthallath_a_shuhada_in_jenin_district

2026 February

2026-02-08 The New York Times reported “more than 2000 health clinics have closed in crisis zones around the world”. See article “What We Lost When We Lost U.S.A.I.D.”. France-24 reported that in just one district 29 children died in just a month’s time from malnutrition and illness; deaths which would have been avoided if funding had been maintained according to one of the coordinators of Action Against Hunger in Ituri.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/opinion/usaid-humanitarian-aid-america.html

https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/location/africa/democratic-republic-congo/

2026-02-28 The US, in joint efforts with Israel, bombed Iran. Only one of the news outlets reported over 200 people including 170 schoolchildren were killed on the first day of bombings. The US did not seek Congressional or international approval and did not provide proof there was an imminent threat warranting the bombing. For context, Trump stated several months ago that the US already destroyed nuclear bombs in Iran and ran on the platform that the US would never start a war in the Middle East. Trump said after the bombing, “When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take”. 

https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-israel-announces-strike-2026-02-28/

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/why-trump-war-iran-benefits

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/28/middleeast/maps-iran-tehran-attack-vis-intl

https://www.cfr.org/articles/gauging-the-impact-of-massive-u-s-israeli-strikes-on-iran

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/02/28/special_report_us_israel_launch_unprovoked

2026 March

2026-03-04 News outlets published the names of the children killed by the U.S. Tomahawk missile that hit the school in Minab, Iran.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/names-and-ages-children-iranian-school-strike

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2026/03/06/iran-girls-school-strike/88968796007/

2026-03-10 When asked about the US bombing a girl’s school in Iran, Trump claimed that Iran launched a Tomahawk missile on itself. Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth and Karoline Leavitt contradicted Trump’s certainty, saying it was still under investigation.

https://apnews.com/video/trump-claims-iran-also-has-access-to-tomahawk-missiles-when-asked-about-girls-school-strike-85ba5b1dbb6d4f1e96c37fa5567f1b85

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/images-taken-iranian-school-hit-deadly-strikes-show-fragments-us-made-rcna262685

2026-03-17 A US-Israeli bombing killed a 3-day-old infant, his 2-year-old sister, and their mother and grandmother.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/17/headlines/iran_says_infant_toddler_mother_and_grandmother_among_latest_victims_of_us_israeli_strikes

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/three-day-old-infant-among-family-killed-us-israeli-strike-irans-arak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89x3FvuhJ2A&list=WL&index=4

2026-03-27 Israeli soldiers fatally shot and killed 15-year-old Adma Dahman in the abdomen south of Bethlehem.

https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_fatally_shoot_15_year_old_palestinian_boy_in_dheisheh_refugee_camp

https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-child-in-bethlehem-3

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-kills-15-year-old-palestinian-west-bank-health-ministry-says-2026-03-28

2026 April

2026-04-09 Israeli soldiers shot and killed 9-year-old girl Ritaj Rihan in the head in front of her classmates in Bethlehia.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israeli-army-shoots-kills-9-year-old-girl-her-gaza-classroom

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/10/headlines/9_year_old_palestinian_girl_shot_dead_in_front_of_classmates_in_gazas_beit_lahia

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dressed-school-returned-shroud-israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-girl-class

2026-04-21 An Israeli convoy killed a 16-year-old Palestinian child near Hebron in the West Bank as he was riding his bicycle to school.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/car-said-to-belong-to-ministers-security-detail-strikes-and-kills-west-bank-teen/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/car-that-killed-16-year-old-palestinian-cyclist-belongs-to-ben-gvirs-security-team/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/21/israeli-soldiers-and-settlers-kill-11-palestinians-across-gaza-west

2026-04-23 Israeli soldiers shot and killed 15-year-old Yousef Sameh Ishtayyeh during a raid in Nablus West Bank.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-palestinian-teen-killed-earlier-was-hurling-stones-at-troops-in-west-bank/

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2641142/middle-east

https://www.gulftoday.ae/news/2026/04/23/israeli-fire-kills-15-year-old-palestinian-in-west-bank-raid

https://en.royanews.tv/news/69174/NBC-poll-shows-massive-%E2%80%9Csympathy%E2%80%9D-for-Palestinians-among-American-Gen-Z

2026 May

2026-05-12 The UN Children’s Fund UNICEF reported that Israel has killed 70 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank since 2025, amounting to 1 child killed per week. UNICEF spokesperson James Elder reported March 2026 was the highest number of attacks in the past 20 years, including children shot, stabbed, beaten and pepper sprayed. About 78 years ago was Nakba, another genocide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXyvUORlD1Y&t=1s

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/05/1167488

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/15/headlines/unicef_says_israeli_attacks_have_killed_or_wounded_59_children_in_a_week_despite_ceasefire_deal

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unicef-says-70-children-killed-west-bank-east-jerusalem-since-2025-2026-05-12/

TIMESTAMP 5:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hR8JDWzrkI&list=WL&index=2&t=9s

2026-05-13 Despite a ceasefire allegedly brokered by the US, Israel killed 12 people including 2 children.

https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-drone-strikes-beirut-children-9faa08df52f16a683f603044d8077993

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/05/13/lebabon-12-killed-israeli-attacks-lebanon/7301778697520/

2026-05-13 Israeli fire killed a 16-year-old Palestinian child Yusef Ali Kaabnah near the town of Jiljilya.

https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/2054676281531175217

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DYTFVXTkWyi/

2026-05-15 A Russian drone strike killed 24 people including 3 children in Ukraine.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/15/zelenskyy-vows-response-after-russian-strike-kills-24-in-kyiv

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-condemns-russia-after-strike-kyiv-apartment-bloc-kills-24-2026-05-15/

SUB WALL https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ye480kxpmo

2026-05-18 A new report finds that more than 100,000 children in the US have had a parent detained since the Trump administration began its mass deportations.

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/19/headlines/report_100_000_children_in_us_have_had_a_parent_detained_in_immigration_crackdown

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-child-parent-separation-estimates-brookings

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-administration-has-detained-400000-immigrants-what-do-we-know-about-their-children/

2026-05-26 Israeli strikes killed 5 Palestinians at a refugee camp in central Gaza, following a strike on Monday at another tent encampment in the Moasi area. A six-year-old girl was among the dead killed at the encampment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1omqCrvapw&list=WL&index=3

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/26/headlines/israeli_strikes_kill_at_least_five_palestinians_at_a_refugee_camp_in_gaza