At the meeting of the UN "Human Rights" Council on children's rights held on March 8, 2016, Iran compared Israel's exercise of self-defense against violent Palestinian child to the genocidal Assad regime.
In its words: "We have witnessed the proliferation and growth of specific states and extremist groups who systemically violate the rights of the child by means of aggression, brutal attacks or occupation like what is going on in Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Africa and elsewhere."