Israel condemns UN move to blacklist IDF for harming children

[Pelican Press 0]

******* condemns UN move to blacklist IDF for harming children

The UN has added the ******** military to a list of offenders failing to protect children last year, *******’s ambassador to the UN says.

Gilad Erdan, who said he had been notified of the decision on Friday, described the decision as “shameful”. Foreign Minister ******* Katz it would “have consequences for *******’s relations with the UN”.

A spokesman for the ************ president told the Reuters news agency the decision was a step closer to holding ******* accountable for its *******.

Thousands of children have been ******* in *******’s campaign against ****** in Gaza, and thousands more are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.

The annual list by the secretary general covers the ******** of children in conflict and denial of access to aid and targeting of schools and hospitals. It will be included in a report to be presented to the UN Security Council next week.

It was not immediately clear which violations the ******** army is accused of committing.

****** and ************ Islamic ****** will also be included in the list, reports said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the UN had added itself to the “blacklist of history” and that the ******** military was the “most moral army in the world”.

******* launched its offensive after ****** attacked communities near Gaza on 7 October last year, ******** about 1,200 people including 38 children and taking 252 hostages including 42 children, according to *******’s National Council for the Child.

The ******-run health ministry in Gaza says 36,731 people have since been ******* by ******** bombardment and ground attacks, but the figures have come under intense scrutiny.

Last month, the UN said at least 7,797 children had been ******* during the war based on data relating to identified bodies provided by the ******-run health ministry in Gaza.

Also last month, the UN revised down the proportion of reported fatalities that were women and children from 69% to 52% of the total number of deaths.

******* said the reduction showed the UN had relied on false data from ******. The ******-run government media office in Gaza meanwhile says ******** attacks have ******* more than 15,000 children.

On Friday, the Associated Press news agency said its analysis of Gaza’s health ministry data found that the proportion of ************ women and children being ******* in the *******-****** war appeared to have declined sharply.

It quoted an expert at the US non-profit research group CNA as saying this was linked to reduced intensity of ******** air strikes.

However ******** air strikes on Gaza have continued. On Thursday morning an air strike reportedly

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. The US said it had seen reports that 14 children were ******* in the strike. ******* has named 17 ****** members it says the strike *******.

In the strike’s aftermath, medics from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) which is supporting the nearby al-Aqsa Martyrs’ hospital described chaotic scenes there. The organisation said that in the previous 24 hours, at least 70 ***** people had been brought in, and more than 300 wounded, mostly women and children.

Last month an ******** missile last month set ***** to a camp for displaced Palestinians near the southern city of Rafah, reportedly

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and sparking global outrage. The ******** military said it had not expected such a ***** to break out.

******* has also been accused of delaying the entry of much-needed aid into Gaza, depriving those living on the ************ territory of clean water, food, medicines as well as fuel. It denies the accusation and accuses UN bodies and humanitarian organisations of failing to distribute aid that is allowed in.

The US-based famine early warning system network Fews Net says it is “possible, if not likely” that famine was happening in northern Gaza in April and an ******** military operation in Rafah in southern Gaza was worsening food insecurity there.

That operation has displaced more than a million Palestinians from Rafah, where they had sought refuge from fighting elsewhere in Gaza, and to sandy coastal areas or the city of Khan Younis, which is largely in ruins.

The UN agency for ************ refugees Unrwa says the movement of such a large number of people in such a short timeframe alongside a sharp fall in aid deliveries is having deadly consequences.

“Children are dying due to malnutrition and dehydration,” Unrwa spokeswoman Juliette Touma said.

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