The United Nations secretary-general will tell the Security Council this week that both Israel and Hamas are violating children's rights and leaving them exposed to danger in their war to eliminate each other. The secretary-general annually makes a global list of states and militias that are menacing children and threatening them. Parties on the list have ranged from the Kachin Independence Army in Myanmar to — last year — Russia during its war with Ukraine. Now Israel is set to join them.
“Hamas will continue even more to use schools and hospitals because this shameful decision of the secretary-general will only give Hamas hope to survive and extend the war and extend the suffering,” Erdan wrote in a statement. “Shame on him!” The Palestinian U.N. ambassador said that adding Israel to the “‘list of shame’ will not bring back tens of thousands of our children who were killed by Israel over decades.