Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

In the annexes of his 2025 annual report on CAAC, the SG continued to list Israeli armed and security forces for killing and maiming and attacks on schools and hospitals, as well as Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades and affiliated factions and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades for killing and maiming and abduction. For the second consecutive year, Israel and OPT was the situation with the highest number of verified grave violations in the SG’s annual CAAC report. The UN verified 8,554 grave violations against children in 2024 and an additional 2,788 violations that occurred in 2023 but were verified in 2024. These violations included the killing and maiming of 2,917 Palestinian children and 15 Israeli children, with reports of an additional 4,470 children killed in the Gaza Strip in 2024 still pending verification, the use of 27 Palestinian children as human shields by Israeli forces, 502 attacks on schools and hospitals, and 5,091 incidents of the denial of humanitarian access. The OPT is the situation with the highest number of children in detention in the SG’s 2025 annual report, with the UN verifying 951 Palestinian children detained. Israeli armed and security forces were found responsible for 7,188 of the total grave violations. The Security Council should:  

• Unequivocally condemn all violations and abuses committed against civilians, in particular the unprecedented number of grave violations against children; call on all parties to immediately end such violations and to cease all indiscriminate attacks and attacks on objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, including children, notably through the use of explosive weapons in populated areas (EWIPA); 
• Demand that all parties fully comply with their obligations under IHL and IHRL; including the special protections afforded to children; call for an end to impunity; and call on all parties to immediately and fully implement all relevant Security Council Resolutions, in particular, 2712 (2023), 2720 (2023), 2728 (2024), and 2735 (2024), as well as resolutions on the protection of civilians and humanitarian personnel and on CAAC; 
• Call for the immediate, safe, and unimpeded access of humanitarian actors for the delivery of humanitarian aid, including medical services, to children and other civilians in need, and for the facilitation of medical evacuations of critically sick and injured children with caregivers; and condemn attacks against humanitarian operations, premises and workers, including the killing of humanitarian personnel; 
• Urge the Israeli armed and security forces, Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades and affiliated factions, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades to immediately cease all grave violations against children and to urgently engage with the UN to develop, sign, and implement time-bound, concrete action plans to end and prevent grave violations against children. 

THERE IS NO DESIGNATED SECURITY COUNCIL PENHOLDER ON ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY.

This information is based on Watchlist’s Children and Armed Conflict Monthly Update – July 2025.