23 December 2023, Pearls & Irritations, Helen McCue: The object is to indoctrinate these children with learned helplessness. The military arrest and detention experience suffocates a child’s sense of agency. They can miss a school year, end up being in classes one year younger than their friends, and often have unhealed trauma.
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Israeli forces shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in the southern occupied West Bank last night.
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Instead of simply disregarding child rights and international law, Israel is increasingly using them to perfect and justify its violence. Hedi Viterbo This year has been the deadliest in the West Bank since the end of the second Intifada in 2005. On December 11, yet another Palestinian life was cut short: Israeli forces shot 16-year-old […]
Read MoreIsrael/OPT: End solitary confinement of Palestinian prisoner jailed as a child
Responding to today’s decision by the Israeli Prison Service to renew the solitary confinement of Ahmad Manasra, a Palestinian prisoner who has developed serious mental health problems since his arrest as a child seven years ago, Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said:
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