UN: Israel is committing "unprecedented" crimes against children in the Middle East
By ethanh // 2024-09-22
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A United Nations committee says that Israel is guilty of committing "unprecedented" crimes specifically against Palestinian children in the Middle East. Mass killings and arbitrary detentions are among the persecutions of choice that Israel routinely deploys against its Palestinian neighbors, the committee found. "The outrageous death of children is almost historically unique," said Bragi Gudbrandsson, vice chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). "This is an extremely dark place in history." "I don't think we have seen before a violation that is so massive as we've seen in Gaza. These are extremely grave violations that we do not often see." On Thursday, the CRC, which monitors compliance of state parties to the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, released its findings to the six nations that are parties to the treaty, including Israel. The report contains a statement from the committee members who say they are "greatly concerned about the high number of children in Gaza killed, maimed, injured, missing, displaced, orphaned and subjected to famine, malnutrition and disease" as a result of Israel's "indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks." (Related: Another heinously cruel thing that Israel does to Palestinians is play recordings of crying children to lure well-meaning parents and adults into the streets so IDF can kill them.)

The Israeli persecution regime

The UN held a series of hearings preceding the report's release in which Israel denied that its war in Gaza violates either the treaty or international humanitarian law. However, what the CRC identified tells a much different story. In addition to indiscriminately killing Palestinian children, Israel is also engaged in the "continued abduction, arbitrary arrest, and prolonged detention of large numbers of Palestinian children by Israeli forces, mostly without charge, trial or access to legal representation or contact with family members," the committee said. The CRC wants Israel to immediately release all Palestinian children in arbitrary detention and halt the practice entirely. The group also wants Israel to "abolish the institutionalised system of detention and the use of torture and ill-treatment against them at all stages of the judicial procedure." Israel's entire war regime run counter to that of pretty much every other country on earth, including the overtly dictatorial ones. Israel's actions are entirely violative of the U.S. Constitution, and yet the U.S. continues to funnel cash and weapons into Israel so it can continue terrorizing its neighbors under the guise of "self-defense." If it was anyone else, they would be sanctioned. Since last October, Israel has ended the lives of some 16,700 Palestinian children, according to the Gaza-based government media office. The International Committee of the Red Cross also says that more than 20,000 Palestinian children are missing from Gaza ever since Israel invaded the enclave and started bombing everything in sight. Israel also has a penchant for killing Palestinian health workers and journalists, one of the most recent to die being journalist Abdullah Shakshak, who was shot and killed by an Israeli military quadcopter in Rafah this week. Since last October, Israel has ended the lives of 173 journalists in Gaza. The Gaza media office issued a statement denouncing Israel's continued targeting of Palestinian journalists and also urged the international community to hold Israel's government accountable for its "crimes against journalists." The Gaza media office is also calling on media organizations to "deter the occupation, pursue it in international courts for its ongoing crimes, and pressure it to stop the genocide and the killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists." In a letter to the European Union and more than 60 international media organizations, the Gaza media office called on whoever is able to "take action against the Israeli authorities' unprecedented killing of journalists and other violations of media freedom." Learn more at Prophecy.news. Sources for this article include: MiddleEastEye.net OHCHR.org NaturalNews.com PalestineChronicle.com
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