Save the Children's 'Don't Mention the Children' Campaign for Gaza

Save the Children UK has launched a campaign titled 'Don't Mention the Children', featuring a black-and-white video in which actors, presenters, activists, and influencers recite a poem by Michael Rosen written in 2014. The poem was originally composed after The Guardian reported that the Israeli government had banned a radio ad mentioning children killed in Gaza. The campaign supports a petition to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, urging measures to protect children in Gaza and the West Bank, including suspending arms transfers to Israel, ending the siege and denial of aid, holding perpetrators of human rights violations accountable, demanding the release of arbitrarily detained Palestinian children, and supporting a moratorium on arrests and prosecutions of minors by Israeli military authorities. The video concludes with the phrases 'Don't Bomb Children' and 'Don't Starve Children', composed of the names of nearly 20,000 Palestinian children killed. Save the Children reports that over 18,000 children have been killed by Israeli forces, calling Gaza the most lethal place for a child. The organization states that children are expressing a desire to die to escape starvation and barbarism, and that atrocities are spreading to the occupied West Bank.