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Russia on UN ‘list of shame’ for killing children, Israel absent

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been criticised for leaving Israel off a UN list shaming countries whose armed forces have killed and maimed large numbers of children [File: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters]

The United Nations has placed Russia’s military and allied armed groups on its “list of shame” over the killing and maiming of hundreds of children in its war against Ukraine, but Israeli forces have been left off the list despite killing more than 40 Palestinian children last year, according to reports.

Human rights organisations had made repeated requests that Israel be added to the UN blacklist over the killing and maiming of Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank.

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