UN adds Israel to list of states committing violations against children

Inclusion comes after eight months of the country’s bombing of Gaza which has killed 13,000 children

• Survivors of Israeli strike on Gaza school describe finding children’s bodies

The United Nations has added Israel to the global list of states and armed groups who have committed violations against children, according to the country’s UN envoy, Gilad Erdan.

News of Israel’s inclusion on the list follows eight months of war on Gaza, in which more than 13,000 children are estimated to be among the 36,500 killed, and comes a day after the Israeli bombing of a UN school in central Gaza, which killed more than 40 Palestinians, some of them children.

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