Mansour: Not including the Israeli occupation in the list of violators of children’s rights is a moral and legal failure

On June 28th, the Permanent Representative of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, denounced the continued violations and crimes of the Israeli occupation authorities aimed at harming one Palestinian generation after another in subjugating the Palestinian people, displacing them and stealing their land.

During a meeting of the Security Council via video on the occasion of the issuance of the Secretary-General’s report “On Children in Times of Armed Conflict,” Mansour expressed the State of Palestine’s refusal not to include the Israeli occupation on the “black list” that includes violators of children’s rights in times of conflict.

Mansour said: “The failure to include the occupation entity in the list of violators of children’s rights to this day is a moral and legal failure.”

Mansour stressed that there is no justification for the United Nations’ chronic failure to include the occupation entity in the “black list”, which encourages it to continue its crimes against Palestinian children and deprive them of their rights guaranteed by international laws.

Mansour said that accountability is the only way to prevent the recurrence of the occupation’s crimes and violations against the people and our children.

O. al-Mohammad