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UN will declare that both Hamas and Israel are violating children's rights in armed conflict
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The U.N. secretary-general will tell the Security Council next week that both Israel and Hamas are violating children’s rights and leaving them exposed to danger in their war to eliminate each other.
The secretary-general annually makes a global list of states and militias that are menacing children and threatening them. Parties on the list have ranged from the Kachin Independence Army in Myanmar to — last year — Russia during its war with Ukraine.
UN REVISES GAZA DEATH TOLL, ALMOST 50% LESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN KILLED THAN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
Now Israel is set to join them.
António Guterres sends the list to the Security Council and the council can then decide whether to take action. The United States is one of five veto-wielding permanent council members and has been reluctant to act against Israel, its longtime ally.
United Nation’s Secretary General António Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters, April 18, 2024. Guterres will tell the Security Council next week that both Israel and Hamas are violating children’s rights and leaving them exposed to danger in their war to eliminate each other. The head of Guterres’ office called Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Gilad Erdan, on Friday, June 7, 2024, to inform him that Israel would be in the report. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Another permanent member is Russia and when the United Nations put Russian forces on its blacklist last year for killing boys and girls and attacking schools and hospitals in Ukraine, the council took no action.
The inclusion of Israel this month will likely just put more of a global spotlight on the country’s conduct of the war in Gaza and increase already high tensions in its relationship with the global body.
The preface of last year’s U.N. report says it lists parties engaged in “the killing and maiming of children, rape and other forms of sexual violence perpetrated against children, attacks on schools, hospitals and protected persons.”
The head of Guterres’ office called Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Gilad Erdan, on Friday to inform him that Israel would be in the report when it is sent to the council next week, U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told reporters.
The militant Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad groups will also be listed.
Israel reacted with outrage, sending news organizations a video of Erdan berating the head of Guterres’ office — who was supposedly on the other end of a phone call — and posting it on X.
“Hamas will continue even more to use schools and hospitals because this shameful decision of the secretary-general will only give Hamas hope to survive and extend the war and extend the suffering,” Erdan wrote in a statement. “Shame on him!”
The Palestinian U.N. ambassador said that adding Israel to the “‘list of shame,’ will not bring back tens of thousands of our children who were killed by Israel over decades.”
“But it is an important step in the right direction,” Riyad Mansour wrote in a statement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “the U.N. put itself on the black list of history today” as the move heightened the long-running feud between Israel and the U.N. and even the routine mechanics of Israel’s dealings with the world body are now fraught with tensions.
The normally equanimous secretary-general’s spokesman broke from the good-natured tone of his noon briefing when asked to discuss the latest development.
“The call was a courtesy afforded to countries that are newly listed on the annex of the report,” Dujarric said. “The partial release of that recording on Twitter is shocking and unacceptable and frankly, something I’ve never seen in my 24 years serving this organization.”
Condemnation of the secretary-general’s decision appeared to bring together Israel’s increasingly fractious leadership — from the right-wing Netanyahu and Erdan to the popular centrist member of the War Cabinet, Benny Gantz.
Gantz cited Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, as saying “it matter not what say the goyim (non-Jews), what is important is what do the Jews.”
For month Israel has faced heavy international criticism over civilian casualties in Gaza and questions about whether it has done enough to prevent them in the eight-month-old war. Two recent airstrikes in Gaza killed dozens of civilians.
U.N. agencies warned Wednesday that over 1 million Palestinians in Gaza could experience the highest level of starvation by the middle of next month if hostilities continue.
The World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization said in a joint report that hunger is worsening because of heavy restrictions on humanitarian access and the collapse of the local food system in the eight-month Israel-Hamas war.
The proportion of Palestinian women and children being killed in the Israel-Hamas war appears to have declined sharply, an Associated Press analysis of Gaza Health Ministry data has found, a trend that both coincides with Israel’s changing battlefield tactics and contradicts the ministry’s own public statements.
The trend is significant because the death rate for women and children is the best available proxy for civilian casualties in one of the 21st century’s most destructive conflicts. In October, when the war began, it was above 60%. For the month of April, it was below 40%.
Yet the shift went unnoticed for months by the U.N. and much of the media, and the Hamas-linked Health Ministry has made no effort to set the record straight.
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2024 Boston College Eagles Football Position Preview: Wide Receivers
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The Boston College football program went through multiple changes this offseason, mostly on the coaching staff. In spite of the changes, the Eagles returned numerous players including 15 starters for the 2024 season.
At the wide receiver position, ten of the 12 players on the Eagles spring roster returned from last season, Lewis Bond, Jaedn Skeete, Dino Tomlin, Dante Reynolds, Nate Johnson, Reed Harris, Montrell Wade, Ismael Zamor, Jay Brunelle, and Luke McLaughlin.
The room also picked up two players out of the portal in Jerand Bradley (Texas Tech) and Jayden McGowan (Vanderbilt).
Projected Depth Chart:
X: Jerand Bradley, Reed Harris, Montrell Wade.
Z: Lewis Bond, Jaedn Skeete, Ismael Zamor.
F: Jayden McGowan, Dino Tomlin, Nate Johnson, Dante Reynolds.
Lewis Bond
Redshirt Junior | 5’11” 199 lbs | Chicago, Ill.
Bond is entering his fourth season with the Eagles. He had a breakout year in 2023 as he appeared in 13 games and made ten starts. During that time, he tallied 52 receptions for 646 yards and seven touchdowns. In his first two seasons in Chestnut Hill, he recorded a combined six receptions for 57 yards. Bond was a three-star running back recruit from the class of 2021 and ranked No. 1,156 nationally, No. 82 in running backs, and No. 29 in the state of Ill., according to 247Sports Composite.
Nate Johnson
Sophomore | 5’9” 172 lbs | St. Petersburg, Fla.
Johnson is entering his second season with the Eagles. Last season, he appeared in eight games which included one start and tallied one reception for 11 yards and five rush attempts for 29 yards. Johnson was a three-star recruit from the class of 2023 and ranked No. 672 nationally, No. 41 in athletes, and No. 109 in the state of Fla., according to 247Sports Composite.
Jayden McGowan
Junior | 5’8” 180 lbs | Laurens, S.C.
McGowan is entering his first season with the Eagles after transferring from Vanderbilt during the offseason. He entered the portal on Dec. 4 and originally committed to South Carolina, but flipped to Boston College nine days later. During his two seasons with the Commodores, McGowan tallied 80 receptions for 836 yards and three touchdowns, as well as 32 rush attempts for 160 yards. McGowan was a three-star recruit from the class of 2022 and ranked No. 789 nationally, No. 116 in wide receivers, and No. 8 in the state of S.C., according to 247Sports Composite. He is rated as a three-star transfer.
Jaedn Skeete
Sophomore | 6’2” 191 lbs | Hyde Park, Mass.
Skeete is entering his second season with the Eagles. Last year, he saw time in seven games which included four starts and tallied 12 receptions for 157 yards and a touchdown and averaged 13.1 yards per reception. Skeete is a product of Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury, Mass., and was a three-star recruit from the class of 2023, who ranked No. 592 nationally, No. 86 in wide receivers, and No. 7 in the state of Mass., according to 247Sports Composite.
Jerand Bradley
Redshirt Junior | 6’5” 222 lbs | Frisco, Texas
Bradley enters his first season with the Eagles after transferring from Texas Tech in between the end of the regular season and the Fenway Bowl. During his time with the Red Raiders, Bradley tallied 92 receptions for 1,274 yards and ten touchdowns. Bradley was a three-star recruit from the class of 2021 and ranked No. 420 nationally, No. 65 in wide receivers, and No. 60 in the state of Texas, according to 247Sports Composite. He is also rated as a three-star transfer.
Dante Reynolds
Redshirt Junior | 5’10” 185 lbs | Chicago, Ill.
Reynolds is entering his fourth seasons with the Eagles. During his time in Chestnut Hill, he has appeared in five games and caught two receptions for six yards, all in 2022. In 2023, he missed the entire season with an injury. Reynolds was a three-star recruit from the class of 2021 and ranked No. 1,404 nationally, No. 191 in wide receivers, and No. 31 in the state of Ill., according to 247Sports Composite.
Reed Harris
Redshirt Freshman | 6’5” 229 lbs | Great Falls, Mont.
Harris is entering his second season with the Eagles. In 2023, he appeared in four games and made one reception for two yards in Boston College’s 48-22 loss to Virginia Tech on Nov. 11. Harris was a three-star recruit from the class of 2023 and ranked No. 693 nationally, No. 47 in athletes, and No. 1 in the state of Mont., according to 247Sports Composite.
Dino Tomlin
Redshirt Fifth-Year | 6’ 188 lbs | Pittsburgh, Penn.
Tomlin is entering his third season with the Eagles. The Maryland transfer came to The Heights in 2022. He has seen time in 20 games and tallied 34 receptions for 493 yards. While with the Terps, he caught three receptions for 19 yards. Tomlin, who is the son of Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, was a three-star recruit from the class of 2019 and ranked No. 1,168 nationally, No. 129 in wide receivers, and No. 23 in the state of Penn., according to 247Sports Composite.
Montrell Wade
Redshirt Freshman | 6’1” 185 lbs | Tyler, Texas
Wade is entering his second season with the Eagles. In 2023, he did not make an appearance in a game and redshirted. Wade was a three-star recruit from the class of 2023 and ranked No. 733 nationally, No. 101 in wide receivers, and No. 112 in the state of Texas, according to 247Sports Composite. While in high school, Wade tallied 92 receptions for 1,719 yards and 20 touchdowns and also placed on the All-District First-Team.
Ismael Zamor
Redshirt Sophomore | 6’ 195 lbs | Everett, Mass.
Zamor is entering his third season at Chestnut Hill, however has yet to appear in a game for the Eagles. He redshirted his freshman season. Zamor was a three-star recruit from the class of 2022 and ranked No. 875 nationally, No. 129 in wide receivers, and No. 7 in the state of Mass., according to 247Sports Composite.
Luke McLaughlin
Redshirt Junior | 5’10” 181 lbs | Hudson, Ohio
McLaughlin has spent three seasons with the Eagles. During that time, he has appeared in seven games, primarily on special teams and has not recorded a reception. McLaughlin committed to Boston College as a preferred walk-on and made the depth chart in 2021, the same season he redshirted.
Jay Brunelle
Graduate | 6’2” 213 lbs | Paxton, Mass.
Brunelle is entering his second season at Chestnut Hill. He has made past stops at Notre Dame where he started his collegiate career and Yale. He transferred to Boston College in the summer of 2023. His only playing time came with the Bulldogs where he appeared in seven games between two seasons and caught four receptions for 106 yards and one touchdown.
Pittsburg, PA
Ireland Contracting Nightly Sports Call: July 26, 2024
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Latest New Businesses Registered In Cheshire
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CHESHIRE, CT — Several new businesses were registered with the state of Connecticut recently in Cheshire.
Here is a list of businesses that were formed in Cheshire from June 28 through July 25, 2024.
The data is from the Connecticut Business Registry, maintained by the Secretary of the State, Business Services Division.
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