children-rights

Media Silent On Evidence Of Israeli Targeting Of Palestinian Youngsters

by Haitham Sabbah November 9, 2008

Via : Media Lens On the afternoon of Thursday 28 February, 2008, a group of Palestinian boys were playing football on some open ground near their homes in the Gaza Strip. At around 3.20pm, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at the boys, killing four of them instantly and seriously injuring another three. The four [...]

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Child abduction by IOF

by Haitham Sabbah April 7, 2008

This letter is a new example of Israel terrorism: From: Fareed T [fareedt99 @yahoo.com] Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:00 PM Subject: child abduction by IOF Dear Friends, My cousin Asef Jameel Awwad is 15 years old boy kidnapped 2 days ago by the Occupation Army and released after more than 30 hours of [...]

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Israel torturing Palestinian child prisoners

by Haitham Sabbah April 14, 2007

By: Philippe Khan Appalling photographs of abuse and torture by American guards at U.S. military bases and detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan shocked the international community, but the Palestinians have been suffering harsher treatment inside Israeli prisons since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Palestinians’ suffering at the hands [...]

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Palestinian Youngsters Used as Human Shields By Israeli Occupation Forces in Balata Refugee Camp

by Haitham Sabbah April 13, 2007

[Cross posted at Daily Kos] Fresh one! The following is a “new” (April 11th, 2007) video evidence that document another human rights violation by using Palestinian youths as human shields. The video show Israeli occupation solider forcing two Palestinian youngsters to serve as human shields and protect the Israeli armor from stone throwers. The scene [...]

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Report: “68 Palestinian women gave birth on Israeli checkpoints, 33 infants and 4 women died”

by Haitham Sabbah April 12, 2007

[Cross posted at Daily Kos] [Image by Carlos Latuff] In a not-so-surprising newsreport, the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR) reported that Israeli occupation soldiers forced 68 pregnant women to give birth on road blocks after barring them from crossing as they were being transferred to hospitals and medical centers. Quoting Saed Bannoura’s report [...]

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The Easiest Targets: The Israeli Policy of Strip Searching Women and Children

by Haitham Sabbah March 16, 2007

Another “must see” documentary today. This documentary Investigation video by If Americans Knew reveals one of the ‘sick’ methods Israelis use to humiliate Palestinians (and others when they like) and Child abuse at Israel airports and Occupied Palestine Borders. Strip-Searching Children, Women and everyone they ‘like’. Strip-searching is nothing new. It is a “normal” practice [...]

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Child abuse in our schools

by Haitham Sabbah March 13, 2007

This is one of the most bizarre video clips I’ve ever seen. Warning (PG): Parents, keep your kids away, trust me. I have no clue where was this video clip taken. It is a classroom in one of our schools around the Arab world. The teacher’s accent sounds Syrian; however that doesn’t necessary mean that [...]

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Updated: More minors used as human shields by IOF

by Haitham Sabbah March 9, 2007

Why I say ‘more’? Basically because this is nothing new. Following the ‘Hot Winter‘ operation on Nablus, the Israeli occupation forces is facing new allegations about the use of Human Shields in it’s illegal operations. Started with AP filming the IOF soldiers using locals as human shield during offensive on Nablus, more reports were published [...]

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From Texas cell, Canadian, 9, pleads for help

by Haitham Sabbah March 7, 2007

The US is holding a nine year old Canadian citizen without charges in a ‘Detention Center’ in a legal limbo. Call it international limbo. Detained by U.S. Customs officials after their flight to Toronto made an unscheduled stop on American soil nearly four weeks ago, Kevin and his Iranian parents, Majid and Masomeh, feel they [...]

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Gaza Kids Reality: The Reality of the Israeli Terrorism

by Haitham Sabbah November 20, 2006

See this brief clip on Gaza… Listen carefully to the young girl… Millions of Palestinian children are living under the same conditions if not worse in Gaza. If they escape the Israeli crimes and not get killed, they will lose an arm or a leg, or at best, they lose their right to live like [...]

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2-yr old Palestinian released from Israeli prison!

by Haitham Sabbah November 2, 2006

The attached is from our local Al-Quds newspaper on Nov 1, 2006. A story about a 2-yr old girl who was released from an Israeli prison near Ramallah. Her name is Aiysha, which in Arabic means “life.” Aiysha’s mother gave birth to her while detained in an Israeli prison. Aiysha was released two days ago, [...]

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Forced labor for Palestinian children in Israeli prison

by Haitham Sabbah October 21, 2006

Many Palestinian children in Israeli Telmond Prison are being exploited by “forced labor in which they must work eight hours for a few shekels,” as reported by the Prisoners Information Center. One of the children made a statement after his release. “The prison administration has forced all prisoners in Telmond Prison to work eight hours [...]

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Saudi Arabia: 14-Year-Old Boy Faces Execution

by Haitham Sabbah October 28, 2005

A 14-year-old Egyptian boy faces execution in Saudi Arabia after a flawed trial in which he was convicted for the murder of another child, Human Rights Watch said today. Following a seriously flawed trial, Ahmad al-D. was sentenced to death in July for the murder of three-year old Wala� `Adil `Abd al-Badi` in Dammam in [...]

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