Palestine calls on United Nations to provide international protection for the people and their children
Today, Monday, the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, sent letters to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, regarding Israel’s violations against Palestinian children.
In his message on the occasion of International Children’s Rights Day, which falls on November 20 of each year, Al-Maliki called for the necessity of immediately stopping the barbaric aggression against the Gaza Strip, bringing humanitarian aid into the Strip, stopping forced displacement, and providing the necessary legal protection for all the Palestinian people, specifically children.
He urged the international community, especially the Security Council, to fulfill its obligations and take the necessary measures to ensure the protection of the Palestinian people, including children in particular, and not to exclude them from international protection, and to take the necessary measures to hold Israel (the occupying power) accountable for its crimes and the necessity of including Israel, its army and its colonizers in The United Nations “List of Shame” of those who violate children’s rights in armed conflicts.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry confirmed that since the beginning of the Israeli aggression and the war of extermination waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip, more than 13,000 martyrs have occurred, including about 5,000 children, pointing out that the occupation’s systematic and widespread attacks did not stop only in the Gaza Strip, but rather extended to the killing of 215 Palestinians in Various parts of the West Bank, including Jerusalem, including 53 children, bringing the number of Palestinian children killed in cold blood in the West Bank since the beginning of this year to 96 children, in addition to 200 children who are currently arbitrarily detained in the illegal Israeli occupation prisons, in inhumane conditions.
