Israel-Iran conflict: violence violence caught in several and escalating conflicts achieved a “unprecedented level” last year, revealed the latest UN report. According to a report published on June 19, the highest number of violations was given.
The annual report of the Secretary General Antonio Guterrese on children in the armed conflict revealed a “stunning 25 % increase in the grave” against children under 18 years of age in 2024 compared to the previous year when these violations increased, the press agency reported.
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“The children carried the onslaught of tireless hostility and indiscriminate attacks and were influenced by ignoring the ceasefire and peace agreements and deepening humanitarian crises,” said the head of the UN in 2024 with citing war strategies that included attacks on children, and still destructive and explosive weapons in surrounding and systematic combat weapons. and “systematic struggles against combat strategies.”
The report comes on the day when the war of Israel -ran entered the sixth day of June 19. Israeli strikes in Iran have so far killed at least 639 people and injured 1,329 others, the Human Rights Group AP 19. June.
Guterres said that the United Nations verified 41,370 violations of the grave against children – 36 221 committed in 2024 and 5 149 committed earlier, but last year it was verified. The violations include killing, crippling, recruiting and kidnapping of children, sexual violence against them, attacking schools and hospitals and denying young approaches to humanitarian aid, the agency report.
“Israeli forces, Hamas on the Blacklist Un”
The UN maintained Israeli forces on its black list of countries that violate children’s rights for the second year, and quoted 7 188 proven violations of the grave by the army, including killing 1,259 Palestinian children and injuries of 941 others in Gaza. The Ministry of Health of Gaza has reported much higher data, but the UN has strict criteria and said its process of verification.
The UN chief said he was “horrified by the intensity of grave violations against children in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel” and “deeply concerned” by the increase in violations, especially the high number of children killed by Israeli forces.
Guterres repeated his calls for Israel to comply with international law requiring special protection of children, protection of schools and hospitals, and compliance with the requirements that the attacks distinguish between warriors and civilians and avoid excessive damage to civilians.
The UN also maintained Hamas, whose surprise on October 7, 2023, an attack in southern Israel caused a new phase of war in Gaza and Palestinian Islamic jihad on blacklist.
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Last year, the UN announced 4,043 proven serious violations against 3,418 children in Congo, 2,568 violations against 1,992 children in Somalia, 2,436 grave violations against 1,037 children in Nigeria and 2,269 verified serious violations against 1,373 children in Haiti.
In the ongoing war after the invasion of Ukraine after Russian February 2022, the United Nations organized the Russian armed forces and associated armed groups for the third year of the Russian armed forces.
The Secretary General expressed deep concern about the “sharp increase in the violation of the grave against children in Ukraine” -1 914 against 673 children. He expressed an alarm in violating Russian forces and their associated companies and chose their proven killing of 94 Ukrainian children, injuries 577 other and 559 attacks on schools and 303 in hospitals.
In Haiti he first put the UN gang, the VIV Ansanm coalition on the blacklist. Ganges have grown since the assassination of President Jovenel in July 2021. It is now estimated to check 85 percent of capital and move to the surrounding areas.
Spike in sexual violence
General Secretary of Guterres expressed a deep “alarm” in breaking in violations, especially the incidents of recruitment and the use of gangs, sexual violence, kidnapping and denial of humanitarian aid.
The report said that sexual violence in 2024 jumped by 35 percent, including the dramatic increase in the number of gang rape, but emphasized that the numbers were extremely insufficiently reported. “The girls were kidnapped for recruitment and use and for sexual slavery,” the UN chief said.
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At the UN Haiti, she reported sexual violence against 566 children, 523 girls, and attributed 411 Gangu of Viv Ansanm. In Congo, the UN announced 358 acts of sexual violence against girls – 311 armed groups and 47 armed forces of Congo. And in Somalia there were 267 children of victims of sexual violence, of which 120 were made by al-Shabab extremists.
Shouts of 22,495 innocent children who should learn to read or play the ball – but instead they were forced to learn how to survive shooting and bombing – should keep us awake at night.
“Shouts of 22,495 innocent children who should learn to read or play the ball – but instead they were forced to learn how to survive shooting and bombing – they should keep us awake at night,” Virginia Gamba, the UN. Special representatives for children and armed conflict.
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