Israel committed 'severe' violations of global child rights treaty in Gaza, UN committee says
A United Nations committee has accused Israel of severe breaches of a global treaty protecting children’s rights.
The UN committee said Israel’s military actions in Gaza have had a catastrophic impact on children and are among the worst violations in recent history.
More than fifteen thousand minors have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war triggered by Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on October 7.
More than one thousand, one hundred people, mostly Israeli civilians, were killed in the Hamas-led attacks and about two hundred and fifty were taken captive.
In response, Israel has waged a war in the besieged enclave, killing more than forty one thousand people and reducing large swaths of the Palestinian territory to rubble.
The 18-member UN committee monitors countries’ compliance with the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, a widely adopted treaty that seeks to protect children from violence and other abuses.
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