Rights official slams UNICEF’s inaction on US-Israeli war crimes against Iranian children
The deputy chief of Iran’s Judiciary and secretary of the High Council for Human Rights has criticized the UN's children agency for failing to denounce crimes committed by the US and the Israeli regime against Iranian children during the recent illegal war of aggression.
Nasser Seraj made the remarks in a letter addressed to UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on Monday.
He urged UNICEF to strongly and unequivocally condemn the illegal US-Israeli strikes that targeted Iranian children and organize immediate psychological, medical and educational support for the affected kids.
“Undoubtedly, silence and inaction in the face of these crimes will weaken the credibility and status of international institutions and will be recorded in the memory of the international community,” he said.
Meanwhile, Seraj said that during the imposed war, which began on February 28, the Zionist regime and the United States directly hit civilian targets, killing and injuring thousands of Iranian citizens, many of them children.
More than 380 children were martyred during the war, including seven under the age of one, 255 between one and 12, and 121 between 12 and 18, while 2,115 children were wounded, including 70 under the age of two, he added.
The rights official also noted that indiscriminate US-Israeli attacks struck residential areas across Iran, as well as schools, scientific centers, universities, business premises, manufacturing plants, health and service centers, railways, bridges, roads, transportation centers, border terminals, and planes carrying humanitarian and medical aid.
On the first day of the criminal aggression, he said, a primary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab was deliberately targeted, killing 73 boys, 47 girls, 26 teachers, 7 parents, a school bus driver, and a pharmacy technician at the clinic next to the school.
“Surprisingly, UNICEF has merely expressed concern instead of condemning this crime, which is unprecedented in all wars of the civilized world over the past few centuries. This is while protecting the rights of children and defending their lives and human dignity are at the forefront of UNICEF’s goals and missions,” Seraj said.
US-Israeli strikes against civilians, he said, violate Article 2, Paragraph 4 of the UN Charter that prohibits any “use or threat of use of force” in international relations.
The unlawful attacks, he said, are also in breach of international humanitarian law and the principles enshrined in the Geneva Conventions.
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