The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, in the annual report of the Security Council (SC) of the United Nations (UN), will include Israel and Hamas in the list of countries and groups that violate the rights of children in armed conflicts.
As Anadolia reports, Guterres informed the Israeli military attaché in Washington, Hedi Silberman, about this.
Guterres told Silberman that he had decided to include, along with Russia, the terrorist organizations ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Boko Haram, and Israel on the blacklist of "countries and organizations that harm children in conflict zones."
Israel, which has reportedly failed in all its efforts to persuade UN Secretary-General Guterres to abandon the move, will be blacklisted to be published next week.
It is estimated that the name of the state of Israel will not be clearly stated in the list, but the Israeli army will be named as responsible for the situation.
In Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7 last year, 36.586 Palestinians, including at least 15.328 children and 10.171 women, were killed, and 83.074 people were wounded.
According to UN reports, a child is killed or wounded in Gaza every ten minutes.
The media office of the government in Gaza announced in a statement on June 3 that 3,5 thousand children in Gaza are facing death due to hunger.
The clashes in Gaza began after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.
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The decision to add the Israeli military to the global list of perpetrators of crimes against children is "a step closer to holding Israel accountable for its crimes," a spokesman for the Palestinian president said, according to Reuters.
Nabil Abu Rudayneh made his comments to Reuters after Israel's UN envoy said he had been officially informed of the decision by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to add Israel's military to the list.
The Israeli army said it attacked a Hamas position at a UN-run school in northern Gaza today.
Palestinian emergency services said that three people were killed on that occasion.
The attack was preceded by an Israeli attack on a UN school in central Gaza, in which at least 33 people were killed, including 12 women and children, according to data from local health officials cited by the Associated Press, although in other reports the number of victims was higher.
The target of today's strike was the Asma school in the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, which is run by the UN Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA).
The Israeli army announced that a container was hit inside a school where "Hamas" members meet to plan attacks.
One extremist was also said to have been killed. The Israeli claims could not be independently verified.
The Palestinian Civil Defense did not release details on the identity of the dead.
More than 180 UN facilities were damaged during the Israeli bombing and ground offensive across Gaza, according to UNRWA data.
Most of them were schools, turned into shelters for tens of thousands of people fleeing violence.
Israel accuses Hamas of using schools and other civilian infrastructure to house its fighters, weapons and for command posts.
In the eight-month war, more than 36.730 people have died in Gaza, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The Israeli army believes it respects international law and blames Hamas for the civilian deaths, claiming that the extremists are hiding and operating in populated areas.
According to the Geneva Conventions, civilians must not be targeted intentionally or randomly, and military operations must be proportionate.
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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will travel to the Middle East next week, the US State Department said, as Washington tries to pressure Israel and Hamas to accept a ceasefire proposal put forward by US President Joseph Biden last week.
In his eighth visit to the region since Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, sparking the latest episode of bloodshed in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the top US diplomat will visit Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Qatar and meet with their top leaders, according to Reuters. .
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, believes that he can successfully exert the pressure that the US is exerting on him in connection with the adoption of a plan for the management of Gaza after the end of the war against Hamas, according to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and CNN reports today.
A June 3 CIA report seen by CNN said Netanyahu is confident he can withstand pressure from the administration of US President Joseph Biden to formulate and publish a plan. for the post-war management of Gaza.
Netanyahu "probably believes he can maintain the support of his security chiefs" and use "vague language" in discussions about the future of Gaza to prevent the "right wing of his hard-line coalition" from falling apart, the CIA estimates.
A report obtained by US officials warned that Netanyahu is likely to deal with post-war Gaza only after he achieves what he considers key security milestones, which could take months and include ending "major military operations", which analysts say is vague. as well as the physical liquidation of the leader of the military wing of Hamas, Muhammad Deif.
The CNN report adds that the Biden administration now views Israel differently, less as a trusted partner and more as an unpredictable foreign government that needs to be analyzed and understood.
CNN published a report on the eve of the expected withdrawal of Minister Benny Gantz's party from the war cabinet, which, according to Israeli media, will happen tomorrow. He will thus fulfill the ultimatum he set to Netanyahu in May of this year: either to clearly present the vision of managing Gaza after the defeat of Hamas, or to follow the withdrawal of Ganza, whose party belongs to the opposition.
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has added Israel's military to a global list of child abusers, Israel's UN envoy Gilad Erdan said, describing the decision as "shameful," Reuters reports.
Erdan said that he was officially informed about that decision today. The global list is included in a report on children and armed conflict due to be submitted to the UN Security Council on June 14.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said the decision to add the Israeli military to the global list of perpetrators of crimes against children "will have ramifications for Israel's relations with the UN."
The Israeli army reached the Mediterranean coast of the million-dollar city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip and thus completely took control of the so-called Philadelphia Corridor - a strip along the border with Egypt, 14 kilometers long - the London-based Qatari newspaper al Arabi al Jadid reported today.
The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) announced last Sunday that it had established "operational control" over the entire road along the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
At the time, it was said that soldiers were deployed along most of the border corridor and that there was a small section remaining near the coast where there were no ground forces, but that the area was controlled by surveillance and fire.
Residents told Reuters that Israeli tanks were advancing further west in Rafah, towards the Mediterranean Sea.
They said that armored vehicles had taken more control along the border with Egypt and that several incursions had been made into the central and western parts of the city.
Health officials said two Palestinians were killed and several wounded in artillery fire west of Rafah.
Some residents reported seeing tanks in the al Izvi area in the far northwest of Rafah near the Mediterranean coast.
Israel has announced that it is not ready to allow the Palestinian Authority, which rules parts of another Palestinian territory - the occupied West Bank, to participate in the control of the Rafah border crossing, the American portal Axios reported, citing four American and Israeli officials.
The Gaza-Egypt border crossing has been closed since early May when the Israeli army took control of its Palestinian side.
Egypt has said it refuses to reopen it until it is back under Palestinian control, to avoid being complicit in Israel's military operation in Rafah.
Under pressure from the US, both sides agreed in principle last Sunday to open the crossing for humanitarian aid, but there has been no progress towards achieving that goal.
Two Israeli sources told Axios that ahead of a meeting on the matter in Cairo on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet that he was not ready to allow the Palestinian Authority to control the crossing.
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The US Central Command announced that it has re-established a temporary port in Gaza, which will enable the delivery of humanitarian aid to the war-torn enclave, according to Reuters.
"In the coming days, CENTCOM will facilitate the movement of vital food and other emergency supplies in support of the United States Agency for International Development," the statement said.
The US State Department confirmed today to Israeli media that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will visit Israel on Monday, June 10, for the eighth time since Palestinian extremists led by Hamas attacked southern Israeli territory, after which the war in Gaza began.
The US and Israel are awaiting Hamas's response to the cease-fire and hostage release agreement proposed by Israel and announced by US President Joseph Biden.
Biden said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had heeded his warnings about a major military offensive in Rafah, and that military plans had been adjusted for a targeted operation.
In an interview with the American TV network ABC, Biden explained that the Israeli army was previously expected to enter Rafah in full force, which it did not.
Netanyahu has publicly said he will abide by a ceasefire agreement to free hostages held by Hamas, Biden recalled.
He said the truce proposal was supported by much of the Arab world.
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Israeli forces bombed Rafah from the air and from the ground overnight as tanks tried to advance further west, residents told Reuters. Fierce clashes took place between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters led by Hamas, the news agency reports.
Residents of Rafah said tanks that had taken control along the border with Egypt carried out several attacks towards the west and center of this southern Gaza town, wounding several civilians who were trapped in their homes and taken by surprise, the Guardian reports.
"I think the occupation forces are trying to get to the beach in Rafah, the incursions and bombing during the night were tactical, they went in under heavy fire before withdrawing," one Palestinian told Reuters.
Israeli forces also operated inside Al Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, while holding two other camps and a town nearby under heavy bombardment from aircraft and tanks, killing and wounding several Palestinians.
As reported by Reuters, the armed wings of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other smaller groups reported that their fighters carried out attacks on Israeli forces in several areas in central and southern Gaza.
According to Al Jazeera, two bodies and several injured people were recovered after Israeli forces targeted a house near Al Salam Mosque in Sabra, Gaza City.
The Times of Israel reported that Israeli forces said they killed a dozen terrorists during an operation in the central Gaza Strip. The Israeli Defense Forces also announced that a Hamas cell that was used to launch rockets was destroyed during an airstrike in this territory, and that tunnels and destroyed infrastructure used by terrorists were found.
Earlier today, Qatari and Egyptian mediators, backed by the United States, stepped up efforts to reach an agreement on a ceasefire and the release of Israeli hostages as well as a number of imprisoned Palestinians, but well-informed sources said there was no indication that a deal would be reached soon. .
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