Occupied Palestine

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki on Monday urged the UN to stop [Israel's] crimes against Palestinian children. 

In a message to Virginia Gamba, UN’s special envoy for children and armed conflict, Maliki said that Israel's intense and violent attacks on Gaza have caused the deaths of dozens of children, and Palestinian children did not have safe places to seek shelter.

"We call Gamba to protect Palestinian children, and urge ‘Israel’ to stop its attacks on Palestinian children," Maliki said

The death toll from the ongoing ‘Israeli’ attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip has risen to 212, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Monday.

The grim figure includes 61 children, 35 women, and 16 elderly people, the ministry said in a statement, while 1,400 people have been injured during the offensive.

The ‘Israeli’ military has staged airstrikes across the Gaza Strip since May 10, leaving behind a massive trail of destruction across the seaside territory.

Ten ‘Israelis’ have also been killed in Palestinian rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into ‘Israel’.

The recent tensions that started in East Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan spread to Gaza as a result of ‘Israeli’ assaults on worshippers in the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

‘Israel’ occupied East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa is located, during the 1967 [Arab-Israeli[ war. It annexed the entire city in 1980 in a move never recognized by the international community./aa