Israeli occupation forces killed and wounded 2,800 Palestinian children in 2018, the largest number since the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014, according to a report by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres , Will be published this week. However, Israel has again slipped out of the UN blacklist, which includes armed forces committing crimes and atrocities against children.
According to the report, which was briefed on "Jerusalem" a summary of it, the Israeli occupation forces killed 59 Palestinian children last year (2018) and deliberately injured 2756 children.
Guterres called for an investigation into these deaths and criticized Israel for its threat to Palestinian children and youth. But under pressure from Washington, Gutierrez has distanced himself from Israel´s inclusion of the "shame list" in the annexes to the poll, according to Jerusalem.
"I am very concerned about the significant increase in child injuries and mutilation throughout Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the inhalation of tear gas that needs medical treatment," UN Secretary-General Guterres said in the report.
The UN Secretary-General directed his Special Envoy for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, to investigate the deaths and urged Israel to "take immediate preventive measures to end excessive use of force" to protect Palestinian children.
According to the report, more than half the deaths of Palestinian children occurred during the demonstrations at the separation fence in Gaza, where the demonstrators rallied since 30 March 2018 in the activities continue today, to demand an end to the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip.
In his 43-page report, the UN Secretary-General said most of the victims were "killed by live ammunition fired at the upper body, while they posed no imminent threat of death or serious injury to Israeli forces."
In the occupied West Bank, 1,398 Palestinian children were injured by the Israeli occupation forces during "demonstrations, clashes, searches and arrests," according to the report. About 1,000 of them were injured by inhaling tear gas.
At the same time, Israeli forces and authorities detained some 203 Palestinian children under "security" allegations, according to the Israeli occupation, including 87 detainees in Israeli jails and 114 others awaiting trial. The document said most of them "spoke of very bad treatment" during the investigation of the intelligence of the occupation with them or during detention.
Israel should "respect international standards for juvenile justice, stop the use of administrative detention of children, end all forms of ill-treatment in detention and stop any attempt to recruit children detained as informants," the report said.
On the other hand, the document criticized the "armed Palestinian groups", including the "Al-Quds Brigades" of the Islamic Jihad and the "Qassam Brigades" of the "Hamas" on the pretext of "recruiting children as fighters."
According to the report, six Israeli children were injured last year, including two girls who were injured in random Palestinian rocket fire.
The United Nations annual report on children and armed conflict does not impose sanctions on blacklisted persons and entities, but "exposes the parties to the conflict in the hope of prompting them to implement measures to reduce the number of children and young men who are abused and killed" Conflict.
Israel has not been included in the annexes to the so-called "list of shame" of armed groups recruiting child soldiers, targeting schools or carrying out military strikes, regardless of the number of children being harmed.
"The United Nations should not underestimate Israel´s disregard for the lives of Palestinian children," said Adrian Labar, director of monitoring program on children and armed conflict, a monitoring group, in a statement to Mundwais, which monitors Israeli violations. (2018) was one of the most serious years for Palestinian children, where the Israeli army is responsible for causing thousands of child victims, yet not included in the annexes. "
Efforts to politicize the process undermine one of the most powerful accountability mechanisms in the UN and reduce the suffering of child victims and their families, "Lapar said.
"Israel´s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to Mendewais´s request for comment on the UN report on children and armed conflict, which was issued at the request of the UN Security Council," the website says.
The annual report has long been controversial, with diplomats saying the United States has put considerable pressure on Israel to stay out of the list in recent years, and that the same applies to other forces that have been criticized, such as fighting the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.
It is noteworthy that the United Nations itself in 2015, the inclusion of Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" on the black list, after it was included in the draft list, but criticized Israel for its aggression on Gaza in the summer of 2014.
Israel denied at the time that it had pressed Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the issue.
