Posted on 06/05/2015 3:17:10 PM PDT by pabianice
Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to add Israel to an annual "List of Shame" of children's rights violators, AFP reported, citing more than 500 children killed in the war in Gaza last year.
The group called on Ban to resist pressure from Israel and the United States to keep the Israeli Defense Forces off the list due to be released next week.
"Secretary-General Ban can strengthen child protection in war by compiling his list based on facts, not political pressure," said Philippe Bolopion, crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, according to AFP.
A draft of the report released last week by Ban's special envoy for children and armed conflict, Leila Zerrougui of Algeria, included the IDF for incidents including attacks on schools and hospitals in Gaza war last year.
It was later reported that Ban was leaning toward not including Israel on the list due to lobbying from Israel.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that Ban had not yet made a decision on whether to include Israel in the report, while Israel's foreign ministry denied pressuring the UN chief.
Human Rights Watch is also calling for the Hamas terrorist group to be included on the list as well as armed groups in Pakistan, Thailand and India for serious violations including attacks on schools and the recruitment of child soldiers.
A UN inquiry published in April said Israeli soldiers had fired on seven UN schools during the Gaza war, killing 44 Palestinians who were sheltered at some of the sites, while Palestinian terrorists hid weapons and launched attacks from several empty UN schools.
Despite the accusations by the UN, a detailed study after last year's Operation Protective Edge proved that 49% of the casualties in Gaza were terrorists, meaning the IDF achieved a 1:1 civilian to combatant ratio almost unprecedented in urban warfare.
Courtesy of israelnationalnews.com
But not the Palestinians when they shoot rockets into civilian areas. See my profile page and the child hit with a rock thrown by those savages.
The terrorists strap bombs to children and send them out as suicide bombers but the UN/obama and democrat party view Israel as the problem.
What about all of the child rapists within the UN?
UN is as bright as the “Leauge of Nations.”
I think they all agree with the UN's findings.
Meanwhile, in the real world, among the muzzies:
Gone Girls: Sewn up and Spit Out, 9 Year-old Girl Commodities
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Posted on 06/05/2015 2:27:36 PM PDT by Kaslin
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Those terrible Israelis just won’t stop beheading children and raping little girls and mothers (Sarcasm off). About time the UN stepped in they are so useless everywhere else.
"We will put no impediment in your way, and we will be down at the dock bidding you a fond farewell as you sail off into the sunset."
I'm thinking it needs to be updated to "Get the H3ll out of here before we hang you!"
If we had a real government, we’d declare war on the UN.
Yea! I have always thought Israel should be held accountable allowing missiles from Gaza to land on their schools. /s
World is truly insane.
Can someone explain why we are members of the UN?
So we can veto.
The U.N. is the violator of children’s rights and is only projecting its wrongdoing on Israel again.
The U.N.’s so-called Palestinians are cannibals. They’ve publicly celebrated murders and eating the organs of the murdered human beings.
My fantasy is of Cruz pulling us out of the UN and saying we will and can have relationships with those countries that wish to join us.
We ready know UN stands for United Nazis. Silly actions like this only confirm the UN’s obvious bigotry problem
The UN is like one big corrupt Clinton Foundation on Speed.
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