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SvennoJ on 07 June 2024
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Israeli foreign minister says inclusion on UN ‘blacklist’ will harm ties

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has also hit out against the UN, saying Secretary-General Guterres made a “shameful” decision.

Katz warned in a social media post that including Israel on a so-called “blacklist” of countries accused of committing rights abuses against children in conflict zones “will have consequences for Israel’s relations with the UN”.


What relations? You're fucking trying to declare UNWRA a terrorist organization while continuously attacking and killing UN personnel, bombing their missions and using their schools as military bases before burning them down.

The only shameful thing from the UN is that it took this long. Israel has put children under military detention without recourse for decades next to routinely killing children in the West Bank.

UNRWA chief calls for investigations into attacks on UN, humanitarian convoys

Philippe Lazzarini has said “no one is being held accountable” for deadly attacks on UN personnel, as well as the destruction of UN premises and attacks on humanitarian convoys seeking to enter Gaza.

“It is time for independent investigations + accountability,” the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on X.

Lazzarini also warned that a “disinformation war” being waged against UNRWA “puts the lives of my own colleagues in #Gaza and elsewhere at risk.

Pakistan’s UN envoy says Israeli army’s blacklisting was expected

Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN, Munir Akram, has spoken to Al Jazeera about the UN adding Israel’s military to a global list of offenders who have committed violations against children.

  • Israel’s classification on the UN blacklist is expected and overdue.
  • Freezing Israel’s UN membership has been discussed among Muslim countries.
  • Pakistan condemns all countries that supply Israel with weapons.

Israel’s war on Gaza taking dire toll on Palestinian children

Rights groups have condemned the dire toll Israel’s bombardment and siege of Gaza has had on Palestinian children across the enclave:

  • More than 15,500 children have been killed, according to the Gaza government media office.
  • UNICEF says nine in 10 Palestinian children in Gaza are living in “severe child food poverty, surviving on diets comprising two or fewer food groups per day – one of the highest percentages ever recorded”.
  • The World Health Organization says more than four in five Palestinian children in Gaza “did not eat for a whole day at least once in the three days” in advance of a recent food insecurity survey.
  • Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) says thousands of Palestinian children have been critically injured and face “a lifetime of recovery to heal from the physical and psychological trauma” of the war.

Another Israeli army attack in Rafah

Earlier, we reported that several people have been killed in the northern part of the southern Gaza city.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic now report that Israeli forces have targeted a house in the Oraiba area, also in the north of Rafah. They said homes and agricultural facilities caught fire after the Israeli army fired incendiary bombs in the area.



Palestine Red Crescent ambulance team treats injured children

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has shared a video showing one of its ambulance team members treating two injured Palestinian children.

The children were hurt in attacks in Deir el-Balah and Maghazi in central Gaza, PRCS said.

The medic can be seen wrapping the children’s injuries – to their leg and head, respectively – with bandages in the back of an ambulance as the children writhe and cry in pain.