International medical professionals who volunteered in Gaza hospitals said they treated more than 100 Palestinian children who were shot in the head or chest by Israeli forces in what appears to be a pattern of deliberate targeting, according to an investigation published Saturday by a Dutch newspaper.

De Volkskrant interviewed 17 doctors and a nurse from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States who worked in six hospitals and four clinics in Gaza since October 2023. Fifteen of the 17 doctors described treating 114 children under the age of 15 who had a single bullet wound to the head or chest.

Former Royal Netherlands Army Commander Lt. Gen. Mart de Kruif told de Volkskrant’ s Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra that such wounds mean that the victims wer

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