UN Chief leaves Israel off child rights violators list

‘UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has left the Israeli regime off the latest annual UN list of parties that kill or injure children during armed conflicts.

Ban’s spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters that the report circulated Monday was the “result of a consultative process” and in the end was the UN chief’s decision.

“Obviously, it was a difficult decision to take,” he commented.

“The UN secretary-general was right not to submit to the dictates of the terrorist organizations and the Arab states in his decision not to include Israel in this shameful list, together with organizations like ISIL, al-Qaeda and the Taliban,” Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor, said in a statement.’

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