A United Nations committee on Thursday accused Israel of committing historically unprecedented violations against Palestinian children, including mass killings and arbitrary detentions.
The Vice Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Bragi Gudbrandsson, told reporters that the death of children is almost historically unique. He called it [QUOTE] an extremely dark place in history [END QUOTE].
The CRC, which monitors compliance of state parties to the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, on Thursday released its findings on six state parties to the treaty, including Israel, after a review during its latest session.
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In its report, the committee said it was greatly concerned about the high number of children in Gaza killed, maimed, injured, missing, displaced, orphaned and subjected to famine, malnutrition and disease as a result of what it described as Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks.
According to a report in June from the International Committee of the Red Cross, more than 20,000 Palestinian children are missing in Gaza as a result of Israel’s assault on the enclave, either lost, disappeared, detained, buried under rubble or in mass graves.
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