Our governments support a state that harms children in conflict — now, according to the UN.
If it hasn’t been clear from Israel’s killing of children at historic rates, using starvation as a weapon of war, and its history of murdering children with impunity, it can’t be clearer – and more official – now.
The UN has announced that this month it is adding Israel to its blacklist of parties who commit grave violations affecting children in situations of armed conflict (updated on June 17, 2024: it was indeed added to the new report, here).
Just this past week, dozens of children were murdered by Israel in the Nuseirat refugee camp in air strikes on a UN school and during a ground invasion, resulting in yet another massacre:
In my episode, I describe the report on which that list appears, what it’s comprised of, how Israel was assessed on that same report last year, and what this new development could mean.
Resources:
- UN Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflicts
- Secretary-General Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict (for 2022, the most recent report published in 2023)
- UNICEF reporting on children in armed conflict
- Defense for Children International – Palestine
As always: stay strong, check on others, and keep your heart open.
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Justina
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