The United Nations UN has included Israel’s military and Hamas on the annual blacklist of perpetrators who harm children.
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres in the report, sent to U.N. Security Council members, lamented over the increase and the intensity of violations against children in the Gaza Strip, Israel and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
The annual Children and Armed Conflict report names and shames those who recruit, kill, abduct children, commit sexual violence against them, deny them humanitarian assistance, or attack schools and hospitals.
Guterres’ special representative Virginia Gamba is mandated by the Security Council to work to prevent and end these violations.
The UN in the report, said it has verified 8,009 grave violations against Israeli and Palestinian children, but the process is ongoing and slow due to the conflict. Of them, 113 were against Israeli children, and the rest were against Palestinian children in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
