The latest in a long string of NGO reports on Israel’s serious and widespread abuse of Palestinian children – including arrest, abuse, and threats. Each year, 500-700 face prosecution in a military court system that lacks basic safeguards for a fair trial.
Recent news reports from the Palestinian Occupied Territories
Latest news from IMEMC, WAFA, Aljazeera on latest escalation
Israel’s bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip continues, killing at least 4 more children and 4 adults. At least 24 Palestinians have been killed in 2 days (8 of them youth) in Gaza and the West Bank.
In what some consider an unprovoked attack, Israel killed 3 Palestinian resistance leaders, 4 women, 4 children & 4 others as Israeli warplanes bombed homes and other civilian objects – the beginning of an operation that is expected to last “at least a few days.”
London hospital removes Gaza children’s artwork after a complaint by ‘UK Lawyers for Israel’ on behalf of Jewish patients who felt ‘vulnerable’ and ‘victimised’ by the Palestinian artwork
Video shows Israeli police beating a Palestinian boy after he refuses to take his trousers off in freezing temperatures.
Nayef al-Oweidat, age 13, suffered serious wounds during an Israeli bombing on his neighborhood. He is one of over 200 Palestinians (40+ of them minors) that who died from Israeli attacks in 2022.
During a brutal invasion of a Palestinian refugee camp, Israeli soldiers shot Amer Abu Zeitoun in the head, killing him. Israel has killed four Palestinians in the first five days of 2023. Three of them were minors.
Invading Israeli soldiers killed five people in the occupied Palestinian West Bank yesterday, including two brothers. This brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in November to 17, including 5 children.
(In addition to these assaults, Israeli forces yesterday abducted and injured numerous people, uprooted 90 Palestinian trees, and demolished two homes.)