The This Friday, the UN notified Israel of its inclusion in the list of countries that violate the rights of children in armed conflicts.reported the spokesperson for the General Secretariat, Stéphane Dujarric.
Although the report is expected to be published next Friday, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, was the first to report that the secretary general’s chief of staff had notified him of Israel’s addition to the blacklist.
Palestinians evacuate the southern Gaza Strip amid Israeli bombardments.
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“The only one on the blacklist today is the Secretary General, whose decisions, since the beginning of the war, and even before, reward terrorists and encourage them to use children in terrorist acts… What a shame! “insisted the ambassador, who has regularly attacked Secretary Antonio Guterres and the UN in general in recent months.
It is an immoral decision that helps terrorism and rewards Hamas
The UN warned in its 2022 report that Israel would be added to the list if no improvement was seen.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan.
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But the war between Israel and Hamas, triggered on October 7 by an unprecedented attack by Hamas against Israel – which left 1,200 people dead, most of them civilians – changed the situation.
In response to the October 7 attack, the Israeli military launched a deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip. At least 36,731 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were killed, according to a latest report Friday from the Gaza Health Ministry.
But Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of camouflaging itself among civilian infrastructure and using civilians as “human shields” to justify the high number of civilian casualties in the war in the Gaza Strip.
Afghanistan, Burma and Somalia also appear on the UN blacklist, as well as groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State.
“It is an act of villainy by Guterres, who observed a minute of silence in memory of the president of Iran who executed tens of thousands of innocent people. He will be remembered in history as an anti-Semitic Secretary General who chose to ignore the sexual crimes of Hamas and Israel’s right to self-defense,” Katz asserted in a message on X.
According to Katz, the UN decision strengthens “terrorist organizations that seek to cynically violate international law, exploiting civilians, including children, and operating from schools, hospitals and other essential facilities.”
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