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Al Jazeera Staff

UN adding Israel to ‘blacklist’ of countries harming children in conflict

A Palestinian child waits for malnourishment treatment, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on May 30 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

The United Nations is adding Israel to its so-called “blacklist” of countries that have committed abuses against children in armed conflict, an Israeli diplomat has confirmed, as thousands of Palestinian children have been killed in the Israeli military’s continued assault on the Gaza Strip.

In a social media post on Friday, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan said he received official notification of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s decision.

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