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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Julian Borger in Washington

‘Unprecedented scale’ of violations against children in Gaza, West Bank and Israel, UN report says

a man carries the body of a girl wrapped in a shroud
A man carries the body of a Palestinian girl, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at her funeral in Khan Younis, Gaza, on 17 October 2023. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

More grave violations against children were committed in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel than anywhere else in the world last year, according to a UN report due to be published this week.

The report on children and armed conflict, which has been seen by the Guardian, verified more cases of war crimes against children in the occupied territories and Israel than anywhere else, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Somalia, Nigeria and Sudan.

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