Israel's dark child-killing record ‘source of shame’ for its Western backers: Iran
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the dark record of the Israeli regime in killing children and minors should be a “source of shame” for the illegal entity’s Western supporters.
In a Twitter thread on Sunday, Nasser Kan’ani rebuked an annual report on children's human rights abuses by the United Nations -- scheduled to be released next week -- for excluding the Israeli regime.
The annual report on children’s human rights covers the killing, maiming, sexual abuse, abduction of children, denial of aid access and targeting of schools and hospitals in conflict zones.
The report includes a list intended to shame parties to conflicts in the hope of pushing them to implement measures to protect children. Despite repeated requests from human rights organizations, Israel has not been added to the shame list for its killing of dozens of Palestinian children.
“It is a source of surprise that a regime with a history of incarcerating 160 children, keeping under house arrest 600 innocent children and 600 Palestinian patients, including 30 physically-challenged patients, does not qualify to be on the United Nations list of shame,” Kan’ani said.
“This is while this child-killing regime shamelessly took the lives of 26 innocent Palestinian children in the first six months of the year alone,” he added. “The dark record of the Zionists in such actions should be a source of shame and embarrassment for the Western supporters of this apartheid regime.”
و این در حالی است که این #رژیم_کودک_کش در کمال بیشرمی تنها در طول ۶ ماه نخست سال جاری، جان ۲۶ کودک بیگناه فلسطینی را گرفته است.
— Nasser Kanaani (@IRIMFA_SPOX) June 25, 2023
کارنامه سیاه صهیونیستها در چنین اقداماتی باید باعث #شرم و خجالت حامیان غربی این #رژیم_آپارتاید باشد.۲/۲ pic.twitter.com/gB63nwNLU6
Over the past months, Israel has ramped up attacks on Palestinian towns and cities. As a result of these attacks, dozens of Palestinians have lost their lives and many others have been arrested.
Most of the raids have been into the cities of Nablus and Jenin, where Israeli forces have been trying to stifle a growing Palestinian resistance against occupation.
Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces have killed at least 126 Palestinians in the West Bank, including al-Quds, among whom were 21 boys and one girl. Last year represented the highest number of Palestinian fatalities in the past 17 years, with 155 people killed.
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