Blacklisted: UN adds Israel to ‘list of shame’ for killing children during Gaza war
The United Nations has added the Israeli military to the world body’s annual “list of shame” that features the offenders committing deadly violations against children.
Gilad Erdan, the Israeli regime’s UN envoy, was officially notified of the decision that has been made by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on Friday.
The list is attached to a report on children and armed conflicts that the UN chief submits to the UN Security Council each year.
The report covers such atrocities as killing and maiming children, subjecting them to sexual abuse, abducting or recruiting children, denial of aid access, and targeting schools and hospitals.
Erdan reacted to Guterres’ decision by calling the Israeli army “the most moral army in the world.”
Israel's foreign minister Israel Katz also said the decision would impact the regime's relations with the United Nations.
The developments came amid the genocidal war that the regime has been waging against the Gaza Strip since October 7 last year.
The military onslaught has so far killed at least 36,731 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
On Tuesday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas had called on the UN to blacklist the Israeli regime over the latter’s continuous mass killing of innocent Palestinian children.
"This fascist entity has committed the most heinous crimes and horrific massacres against the Palestinian people, especially innocent children who have been and continue to be direct targets of this Nazi entity's terrorism and criminality," it had noted in a statement.
The UN report, which is compiled by Virginia Gamba, Guterres' special representative for children and armed conflict, will be sent to the Security Council on June 14.
On Friday, the government in Gaza reported that, since the onset of the onslaught, the Israeli military had killed more than 15,517 children.
It added that more than 17,000 Gazan children had so far also lost either one or both parents.
Around 3,500 Gaza children were, meanwhile, struggling with widespread malnutrition that has been caused by the war, it concluded.
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