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    Ilan Pappe - Israel’s Relentless War against the Children of Palestine Archived Message

    Posted by johnhol on November 29, 2022, 11:00 pm

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    “Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.” Preamble, UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959)

    More than half of the population living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are below 18; in fact, one can confidently say that half of the people of the occupied West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip are children. Anyone who wages a war against these two territories, through house demolition, arrests without trial, shoot-to-kill policy, and humiliation, is waging war against children.

    At times, whole military brigades of the Israeli army, accompanied by elite units, border police, and police chase a boy and, in most cases, kill him or at best arrest him.

    If there is anything that changed in the last few years in what finally the United Nations was willing to call the colonization of Palestine, it is the intensification of the Israeli shoot-to-kill policy. And although so many of us understand that the new Israeli government will not change the policies the previous governments pursued, one can expect further brutalization in the war against the children of Palestine.

    Continues:
    https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israels-relentless-war-against-the-children-of-palestine/

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