Saturday, June 8, 2024

Blacklisting Israel after '15,000 children killed' long overdue, says UN special rapporteur

from PressTV

A UN special rapporteur says it should not have taken “15,000 children killed” in the Gaza Strip to add Israel to the blacklist of regimes that commit “heinous violations” of international law against children.

In a post on X on Saturday, Francesca Albanese said it is long overdue to blacklist Israel as a child-killer regime after killing 15,000 children in the besieged Palestinian enclave and mutilating many more.

“It should have not taken 15,000 children killed, many more mutilated & 20,000 orphaned, to list Israel among” the regimes “who commit heinous violations of intl. law against children. Btw 2008-2022, 1,434+ Palestinian children were killed and 32,175+ were injured, mostly by Israeli forces using ‘excessive force’. In the same period, 25 Israeli children were killed, mostly by Palestinian individuals, and 524 injured. It did not start on Oct 7,” she said...

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