Gaza children describe their experiences during and after Israel’s bombing of Gaza May 10 to May 21, 2021 in this 8-minute film.
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Shackled, Beaten, Strung Up on a Tree: Palestinian Teen Brutally Attacked by Settlers
Fifteen-year-old Tareq Zubeidi, a victim of settler violence this week. The settlers kicked him, he says, as he lay on the ground, then placed him on the hood of the car, lashing him to it with a chain. At the supposedly evacuated settlement of Homesh last week, a Palestinian teen was seized by settlers and…
Israel’s killing of Palestinian children: ~80 so far in 2021
Defense for Children International declares that Israel regularly commits “extrajudicial or willful killings” of Palestinian children… Children in a village were regularly targeted; some of this targeting was to punish their parents for political activism… 85 children from the village had been arrested over the years, 10 of them under 15. “More than 500 villagers had also been wounded, and five people were killed.”
Israeli bulldozers demolish Palestinian kindergarten
Just as a new school year is getting underway, Israeli forces demolish a brand-new Palestinian kindergarten, citing, as usual, “lack of permit” in the context of an occupation that only rarely dispenses permits to non-Jews.
Deconstructing AP report on Israeli ‘suffering’ in Sderot
A recent article by AP bureau chief Josef Federman on Israeli difficulties, to which we’ve added some essential facts, images, and videos that the story omitted….
Dear Star Parker, please take this crash course on the facts about Israel
A respected journalist, apparently misinformed about history and current events in Israel, has unfortunately shared with her readers several inaccuracies about Israel and the people of Palestine. Her misunderstandings are not uncommon. If Americans Knew offers corrections.
Revealed: Israel Secretly Kept Innocent Palestinians in Remote Detention Centers
An investigative report by an Israeli newspaper reveals that hundreds of Gazans, including families of suspected political agitators, and young men not suspected of anything, were jailed in Israeli detention centers in 1971 for almost a year.
Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in West Bank peaceful protest
The village of Nabi Saleh, home to ordinary Palestinian families, has peacefully resisted Israel’s ongoing confiscation of their land for years. On Friday, the community was shattered by the senseless death of yet another of their own at the hands of Israeli forces.
A Jewish Reflection on Israel’s Crimes and Israeli Hubris
Jewish author Michael Lesher – who blogs for the Times of Israel, among other outlets – muses on many Jewish leaders’ responses to the recent attack on Gaza: “trust in God and believe in Jewish infallibility.” Lesher suggests that instead, they should “devote their efforts toward restraining the Israeli war machine,” and consider the consequences of “[building a] future on a foundation of stolen property and murdered children.”
The Stolen Childhood of Palestinian Kids
Sujoud’s story is unique in its details, but many Palestinian children in the West Bank have had similar haunting experiences with Israeli settlers, soldiers, or another form of the inescapable presence of the occupation.