US news publication The Atlantic has received heavy criticism in recent days over the publication of an article earlier this month that seemed to argue for the legality of killing Palestinian children during wartime. The article, written by The Atlantic’s staff writer and Yale University lecturer Graeme Wood, was published on May 17 and tried to cast doubt on the UN’s recent statistics on the Gaza war. In his criticism of the casualty figures reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the writer was accused of trying to play down Gaza’s devastating humanitar…