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Part of the reason why the find has gone unreported for more than a decade was the difficulty researchers faced in dealing with such a gut-wrenching discovery of dead infants, says Oded Lipschits, a professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University
Non-zero chance this got buried because some Israeli official overheard it and thought it was one of their own massgraves
luckily it was during the Persian Period so
at last, evidence that israelis are native to the levant
2500 years of israeli history
There is a theory that "Moloch" was not a god of the Levant but rather the practice of child sacrifice by an early Jewish sect. This is why it's talked about differently than other gods of the region in Talmudic Scriptures. Dr Justin Sledge (yes his real name) has a pretty academic video on this topic on his YT channel. For those not in the know, Dr Sledge isn't some rando YT guy, he's a PHD scholar and his works are literally reference material in some colleges for undergrads and grads studying these topics.
This also could reflect how early Jewish practitioners handled natural infant death as well. It may be that infants under a certain age, for religious or social reasons, were not treated as full people due to high natural mortality rates and therefore just buried in mass graves. It's not unheard of for ancient peoples to do something like this.
Defiantly not child sacrifice. 
infant (and maternal) mortality was pretty high until very recently. Some places you had to survive a few years to get a name
Some places you had to survive a few years to get a name
China and Eastern Europe are what I'm aware of off the top of my head. You give your kid a nickname until they pass a certain age.
I don't know how accurate this is but I believe this was a practice in some places in the middle east as well.
Modern medicine is amazing honestly. Babies of all animals are at their most fragile state that random spontaneous death is a common issue.
"Palestine Exploration Quarterly" what a cursed name for a publication. This is interesting stuff though.