The Secretary General of the United Nations officially put Israel on the black list of children’s rights violators

Mrs. Virginia Gamba, the UN Secretary General’s special representative for children and armed conflicts, read the annual report on children in armed conflicts on Wednesday local time (July 6, 1403 equal to June 26, 2024) at the Security Council meeting and said: Assessing the severe violations committed against children, the Secretary General of the United Nations has included the Israeli armed and security forces in the list of children’s rights violators for killing and maiming children and attacking schools and hospitals.

The special representative of the UN Secretary General stated: The situation of children and armed conflicts with the highest number of serious violations of their rights during 2023, in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, including Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Somalia, Nigeria and Sudan. In Myanmar, we saw a 123% increase in serious violations against children’s rights.

Ms. Gamba stated: “The conflict in the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel has escalated to an unprecedented scale and has caused unimaginable suffering to thousands of children. I am horrified by the killing, maiming and kidnapping of children by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups and the number of children killed and injured by the Israeli armed and security forces in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. The total number of violations of children’s rights in this region has increased by 155%, and 8,099 cases of serious violations against 4,360 children have been confirmed.

This report states: “Also, 23,000 other cases of violation of Palestinian and Israeli children’s rights have been reported, and verification processes have been initiated in this regard. Behind every incident of violation of children’s rights in wartime lies the unique experience of a child. We cannot forget this.”

The special representative of the UN Secretary-General stated: “The UN Secretary-General, having assessed the serious violations committed against children in this situation, has ordered the Israeli armed and security forces to kill and mutilate children and attack schools and hospitals in He has placed the list of violators of children’s rights.”

This report was shared with the members of the United Nations Security Council on June 14, equivalent to June 25, 1403, and before that, according to the usual method in the United Nations, the officials of this organization, before publishing the report, discussed with the countries that are going to If they are added to this list, they will call to prevent disclosure and leakage of information.

But Gilad Erdan, the Israeli ambassador at the time, recorded the phone call of Courtney Rattray, the advisor to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and shared a part of it on his accounts on social networks, which caused criticism and surprise of the UN spokesperson.

The UN spokesperson said: “The video recording of the phone call and the publication of part of it on Twitter by the ambassador of Israel is shocking and unacceptable, and frankly, it is an action that I have never seen during my 24 years of service to this organization.”

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Following the video recording and publication of the phone conversation of the UN Secretary General’s office by Gilad Erdan, the then Israeli ambassador to the UN, CNN announced that he was dismissed and replaced by the former ambassador of this regime.

The American CNN news network reported that Danny Danon, Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations, will return to his previous position as a representative of this regime.

According to this report, Israeli Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to appoint Danny Danon as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. The Israeli Prime Minister’s office said in a statement: “Danon has considerable experience in the international arena, and there is no doubt that his talent and experience will show itself at this time. This appointment will be submitted for government approval, after which Danon, He will begin his second term as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations
Danon was Israel’s representative at the United Nations from 2015 to 2020

Source: IRNA