Israel will be held accountable for deliberate killing of Iranian children: UN envoy
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has condemned Israel’s policy of deliberately killing children during wars across the region, saying the regime will be held accountable for its crimes of infanticide.
Amir Saeid Iravani made the remarks on Thursday while speaking at an open debate of the UN Security Council on “Children and Armed Conflict”.
He said that Israel, in the course of its brutal aggression against the Islamic Republic between June 13 and June 24, deliberately attacked civilians, killing more than a dozen Iranian children, including toddlers and babies as young as two months old.
Iran’s health ministry said on Monday that at least 44 women and 13 children have been killed during Israel’s military aggression against Iran.
Iravani called on the UN Security Council to fulfill its responsibility to save the lives of children and immediately adopt effective measures against Israel.
“Last week, the Israeli regime was included again in the blacklist of parties that commit grave violations affecting children in situations of armed conflict on the agenda of the Security Council,” the Iranian envoy noted.
“While this is an essential initial step, it is neither enough nor proportionate for stopping the regime’s targeting of children.”
He said the onus lies on the world body to save the lives of children and adopt effective enforcement actions against the child-murdering regime in Tel Aviv.
“The regime will be held fully accountable for its crimes, in particular, the policy and practice of targeting children,” he asserted.
Israeli military aggression against Iran has claimed a number of innocent lives since June 13, including those of children, killed in homes and playgrounds.
Iravani also referred to Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, saying 50,000 Palestinian children have been killed or wounded by the regime since it unleashed its genocidal aggression in October 2023.
“The magnitude of the savagery of the Israeli regime is to the extent that, due to its persistent killing of children, a new term has emerged, as I quote, “Wounded Child, No Surviving Family,” which refers to Palestinian parents who were killed while their children were left injured,” he pointed out.
Iravani said that in addition to deliberate Israeli attacks against Palestinian children and civilian infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals, hundreds of thousands of kids have been intentionally deprived of food, water, and medicine, and subjected to starvation.
Although the United States has blocked every effort of the Security Council that sought to protect Palestinian children, “we should not give up in the face of such double standards and hypocrisy,” he emphasized.
