UN expected to announce that Israel, Hamas are violating children's rights in armed conflict

The secretary - general drafts a global list of child - threatening states and militias each year. The list includes many parties, from the Army of Independence Kachin in Myanmar to Russia, which was included last year because of its war in Ukraine.

Now Israel is expected to join them.

Secretary António Guterres forwards the list to the Security Council and then the council can decide whether to take action. The United States is one of the five permanent members of the council with veto rights and has been reluctant to act against Israel, the old ally.

Another permanent member is Russia, and when the United Nations put Russian forces on the blacklist last year for killing boys and girls and attacking schools and hospitals in Ukraine, the council took no action.

Israel's involvement this month is likely to bring it more to the global spotlight on its conduct in the Gaza war and increase already high tensions in its relations with the United Nations.

Foreword to last year's UN report, says it lists parties involved in “Killing and maiming children, raping and other forms of sexual violence committed against children, assaulting schools, hospitals and protected persons”.

Secretary Guterres' office chief called Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan on Friday to inform him that Israel will be in the report when he is sent to the council next week, UN spokesman Stéphaan Dujarc told reporters.

Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad will also be included on the list.

Israel reacted angrily, sending news organisations a video of Ambassador Erdan as he rebuked Secretary Guterres' office chief, who allegedly was on the other side of a phone call, and posted it to the X network.

Hamas will continue to exploit more schools and hospitals because this shameful decision of the Secretary General will only give Hamas hope of survival, prolong the war, and prolong suffering”, Ambassador Erdan wrote in a statement. “Time to”!

Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, said Israel's inclusion in the UN Our “list of shame will not bring back tens of thousands of our children who were killed by Israel over the decades. But it's an important step in the right direction”, Ambassador Riyadh Mansour wrote.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “The UN put itself on the black list of history today”, After the move increased the long-standing dispute between Israel and the UN and even the usual flow of Israel's relations with the world organisation, it is now fraught with tensions.

The secretary-general's spokesman, usually calm, changed our tone during his noon conference when he was asked to comment on the recent development.

“Call was a courtesy offered to the countries that are newly listed in addition to report”, spokesman Dujarric said. “Partial publication of that census at Titter is shocking and unacceptable and frankly, something I have never seen in 24 years serving this organisation”.

The conviction of the secretary-general's decision seemed to bring Israel's increasingly divided leadership together by Mr. Netanyahu and right-wing Ambassador Erdan to the popular member of the War Cabinet, Benny Gantz.

Mr. Gantz quoted Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, as saying. It doesn't matter what the Jews say.

For months, Israel has faced fierce international criticism for civilian victims in Gaza and questions about whether it has done enough to prevent them in the eight-month war. Two last air strikes in Gaza killed dozens of civilians.

UN agencies warned on Wednesday that over 1 million Palestinians in Gaza could experience the highest rate of hunger by the middle of next month if the hostilities continue. / VOA