libertychatter.com
2026-05-25
The most advanced age in human history is tolerating a kind of global war on children that no normal person, left or right, would defend if they saw the numbers laid bare.
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*Over half a billion children now live inside conflict zones, with 2024 among the worst years ever recorded for kids in war.
*Explosive weapons now account for more than 60 percent of child casualties in war zones, driven largely by state forces using heavy firepower in cities.
*Verified grave violations against children in conflict surged to more than 41,000 in a single year, with attacks on schools and hospitals entrenched.
*Indirect deaths from hunger, disease, and displacement may quietly outnumber those killed by bullets and bombs.
Explosive Weapons Have Turned Childhood Into A Battlefield
Save the Children reports that more than 60 percent of child casualties in war zones now come from explosive weapons, a profound shift in how children die in modern conflicts.[1] Artillery barrages, airstrikes, rockets, and drones are no longer rare, last-resort tools used on open battlefields; they are now routine in neighborhoods, markets, and apartment blocks. The same report concludes that for three consecutive years, government forces, not insurgent groups, were identified as the main perpetrators of child casualties, largely because these militaries choose wide-area weapons in crowded cities.[1]