Scores of rockets have been fired from Lebanon at northern Israel this morning, according to the IDF - which has retaliated. The exchange of fire follows the death of a senior Hezbollah commander in a presumed Israeli airstrike last night.
Israel and Hamas have been included for the first time on a United Nations list for violating children's rights.The UN's Children in Armed Conflict office said in its annual report that war in Israel and Gaza, as well as in Ukraine and Sudan, led to an unprecedented number of children being killed and injured in 2023.
UN secretary-seneral Antonio Guterres said in the report that Israeli forces were included for the first time over the IDF killing and maiming of children and attacking schools and hospitals.Hamas, along with Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants, were also included for killing, injuring and abducting children.In total, the UN report said, 'some 19,887 Palestinian children were reported killed or maimed' across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
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