According to Israel’s ambassador to the UN, the Israeli military has been added to a list of those who failed to protect children last year.
“Shameful” was how Gilad Erdan put the decision, claiming to have learned of it on Friday.
It would “have consequences for Israel’s relations with the UN,” according to Foreign Minister Israel Katz.
The decision, according to a spokeswoman for the Palestinian president, is a step towards making Israel answerable for what he claims are its crimes, as reported by the Reuters news agency.
Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has resulted in the deaths of thousands of children, and thousands more are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
The secretary general’s yearly list includes the murder of children during hostilities, denying them access to help, and focusing on hospitals and schools. Next week, the UN Security Council will be presented with a report that includes it.
Which offences the Israeli army is alleged to have committed were not immediately apparent.
According to rumours, the list would also include Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, declared that the Israeli military was the “most moral army in the world” and that the UN had joined the “blacklist of history”.
According to Israel’s National Council for the Child, Israel began its offensive after Hamas targeted neighbourhoods close to Gaza on October 7, 2018, killing around 1,200 people, including 38 children, and kidnapping 252 people, including 42 children.
According to the Gaza-based health ministry administered by Hamas, Israeli ground strikes and airstrikes have killed 36,731 individuals since then.
Based on information about identifiable remains provided by the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, the UN declared last month that at least 7,797 children had died during the conflict.
The UN reduced the percentage of recorded deaths that were women and children from 69% to 52% of all deaths earlier this month.
Israel said the decrease demonstrated the UN’s reliance on erroneous information from Hamas. The UN claims that instead of using data from the Government Media Office (GMO), which is controlled by Hamas, it is now depending on data from the health ministry in Gaza. Meanwhile, the GMO claims that over 15,000 children have died as a result of Israeli assaults.
According to an Associated Press news agency examination of data from Gaza’s health ministry, the percentage of Palestinian women and children dying in the Israel-Hamas conflict appears to have dropped significantly, the report claimed on Friday.
According to a specialist at the US non-profit research organisation CNA, this is related to the fewer intense Israeli airstrikes.
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, meanwhile, have persisted. At least 35 individuals are said to have died in an airstrike early on Thursday morning at a central Gaza school that was crowded with displaced residents. According to accounts, 14 children were killed in the hit, the US said. Israel claims that the strike killed 17 members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which is assisting the adjacent al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital, sent medical personnel to report chaotic circumstances in the aftermath of the strike. According to the charity, around 300 wounded persons—mostly women and children—and at least 70 deceased people had been brought in during the preceding 24 hours.
A camp for Palestinian refugees near the southern city of Rafah was set on fire by an Israeli missile last month, allegedly killing 45 people—many of them children—and inciting indignation around the world. According to the Israeli military, they did not anticipate such a fire to start.
Additionally, Israel has been charged for obstructing the delivery of desperately needed aid into Gaza, depriving the Palestinian population of fuel, food, clean water, and medical supplies. It refutes the allegation and charges humanitarian organisations and UN agencies of neglecting to distribute aid that is permitted entry.
Fews Net, a US-based famine early warning system network, reports that it is “possible, if not likely” that food shortages in northern Gaza was exacerbated by an Israeli military operation in Rafah, southern Gaza, in April.
Over a million Palestinians have been forced to leave Rafah, where they had sought safety from fighting in other parts of Gaza, and relocate to sandy coastal areas or the mostly destroyed city of Khan Younis as a result of that operation.
According to Unrwa, the UN organisation for Palestinian refugees, the large-scale migration that has occurred so quickly combined with a precipitous decline in humanitarian supplies is having fatal effects.
Malnutrition and dehydration are killing children, according to Unrwa spokeswoman Juliette Touma.
