Israeli fighter. Cartoon of 09/06/2024 in CTXT
Translation of the posters on the buttons: "Murder children". "There were terrorists". "We will open an investigation".
The United Nations updated its blacklist of countries that have attacked civilians and children during armed conflict and included Israel. This list, also called the "list of shame" of countries "aggressors that attack children" has previously included Yemen, Iraq, Russia, Myanmar, Syria, Afghanistan or Somalia and organisations such as the Islamic State, Al Qaeda or Boko Haram.
Although this is the first time Israel has been included in this list, in 2023 it had already been cited in the report along with Palestine as one of the nations with the highest levels of verified grave violations(1).
The UN, citing data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, claims that"the number of children killed by Israeli shelling, attacks and incursions that have been identified as of 5 June stood at 7797, to which must be added the children among the 12,000 bodies recovered but not yet identified and those found under the rubble, where some 10,000 bodies, mostly women and children, are believed to be buried".
In addition, an estimated 85 per cent of Palestinian children under the age of five suffer from hunger or some form of malnutrition due to Israeli impediments to food deliveries. At least 30 children have died of starvation in Gaza, according to the Strip's health authorities.
But the overall figures, always rising, are devastating. There is already talk of more than 36,000 Palestinians killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip and more than 83,000 wounded.
Israel's ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, responded in the only way genocidaires know how, by calling anyone who points out their criminal acts a terrorist.
"Our army is the most moral army in the world, the one who gets blacklisted is the secretary general, who promotes terrorism and hatred of Israel. The secretary general should be ashamed of himself!" he said in a tweet in which he appears to be pretending to answer the phone.
Netanyahu did not develop his response much further either, in a statement that was shorter than his humanity, merely stating that the UN is Hamas.
"The UN put itself on the blacklist of history today when it joined the supporters of the Hamas murderers. The Israel Defense Forces are the most moral army in the world and no delusional UN decision will change that".
Israel's foreign minister Israel Katz added his usual threat to the response by including the also traditional accusation of anti-Semitism, and also on Twitter said:"It is an act of villainy by Guterres, who observed a minute's silence in memory of Iran's president, who executed tens of thousands of innocents. Hewill go down in history as an anti-Semitic secretary general who chose to ignore Hamas's sex crimes and Israel's right to self-defence."
Later, he would publish this drivel, more typical of a teenage troll wannabe, to demonstrate to the world the level of sociopathy of those who rule Israel.
Although I wish this was all just a war of memes and posturing instead of a genocide broadcast live.
