This is the 24th year that the United Nations has released this report on grave violations against children.
The report, released annually, looks at the number of children globally who have been killed, maimed or recruited into armed conflict, among other things. The report only documents cases that the UN has been able to independently verify.
Now, despite ample evidence that Israel should have been included on this list for many years, it wasn’t – as the UN bowed to Israeli pressure not to be named in the report.
But that all changed last year when Israel was included for the first time. And now this year, marking two years in a row that Israel is named and shamed.
In the annexe of the report looking at 2024, it says Israeli forces remained on the list because they fulfilled the criteria of a “party that kills and maims children” and “a party that engages in attacks on schools and/or hospitals”.
Globally, the UN was able to verify 41,370 grave violations against children in 2024.
Roughly 20 percent of the total – more than 8,000 – were committed by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory.
