Iran urges trial of Israeli criminals for violence against Palestinian, Lebanese children
Iranian Justice Minister Amin Hossein Rahimi says Israeli criminals must stand trial as soon as possible for committing “war crimes” against the Palestinian and Lebanese children.
Rahimi, who also serves as the head of the National Body on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, made the remarks while addressing the First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children in Bogotá, Colombia.
He expressed his “deep concern” about the displacement, missing and massacre of tens of thousands of children in Gaza and Lebanon, “which is an unprecedented tragedy in gross violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and a clear example of the most severe violence.”
“The Islamic Republic of Iran places a premium on ending the Zionist regime’s violence against children,” said Rahimi, who also serves as the head of the National Body on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
He called on all the participants in the conference to take swift measures to clearly recognize as a war crime harming the defenseless children of Gaza and Lebanon.
They should strive to prosecute and hold accountable the Zionist perpetrators and their supporters for resorting to violence against the Palestinian and Lebanese children, he emphasized.
The Iranian minister also called for the establishment of a special task force to compensate for the damage caused by the Israeli war to children in Gaza and Lebanon.
The death toll from the year-long Israeli genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has risen to 43,508, most of them children and women, with 102,684 others wounded.
In a fresh report on Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) condemned the staggering number of civilians killed in Israel's war in Gaza, with women and children comprising nearly 70 percent of the thousands of fatalities it had managed to verify.
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