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By Awad al-Rujoub RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): More than 9,300 Palestinian minors have been detained by Israel since 2015, according to a local NGO on Saturday. In a statement marking World Children’s Day, the Palestinian Prisoners Society NGO said Israeli forces rounded up 750 minors in 2022. “Around 160 children are still in Israeli custody,” […]

7th Aug 2022

Palestine: 29 Palestinians killed, incl 6 children by Israeli indiscriminate bombing in Gaza

Gaza, Palestine, (AA and Agencies): Indiscriminate bombing by Israel has killed 29 Palestinians, including six children; more than 250 people have been injured, according the Palestinian Health ministry Sunday. UK has supported Israel on its airstrikes against Gaza, saying Israel is “right to defend itself” despite the bombing by Israel was unprovoked. The Palestinian Energy […]

14th Aug 2021

UN denounces raid on West Bank NGO, urge Israel to probe large number of child killings

By Peter Kenny GENEVA (AA): UN human rights experts Friday called on the Israeli government to immediately return confidential documents and office equipment its military seized from the offices of an NGO fighting for children’s rights in the occupied West Bank. “We are deeply concerned by the Israeli military’s interference with the human rights […]

20th Nov 2018

Palestine: 52 Palestinian children killed by Israel this year

By Qais Abu Samra RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Israeli forces killed at least 52 Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since Jan. 1, Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P) said Monday. In a statement released on the occasion of International Children’s Day (Nov. 20), the Geneva-based NGO’s Palestine branch said 48 of the […]

15th Aug 2018

Palestinian children report abuses in Israeli custody

RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Marwan, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy, has been suffering the effects of trauma since being assaulted and arrested by Israeli army troops. “It was almost four months ago when the Israeli army raided our home in the middle of the night, assaulted my father and arrested me,” Marwan Sharabti told Anadolu Agency. Marwan […]

15th Jul 2018

Palestine: Cease-fire reached in Gaza with Israel as Israeli air force kills 2 children

By Gulsen Topcu GAZA (AA): Palestinian resistance group Hamas said on Saturday a cease-fire with Israel in Gaza had been reached as Israeli warplanes kill 2 Palestinian children in Gaza. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said that mediation by Egypt worked out. Barhum said that many sides tried to talk Israel […]

3rd Jul 2018

Palestine: Israel army killed 25 Palestinian children in 2018

By Qais Abu Samra RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): The Israeli army has killed 25 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip since the beginning of 2018, a rights NGO said Monday. In a press release, Defense for Children International-Palestine, which advocates for the rights of Palestinian children in the Israeli-occupied […]

16th May 2018

Palestine: Gaza death toll from Israeli fire rises to 62, incl 8 month old baby, over 3100 injured

By Nour Abu Aisha and Ali Semerci GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army gunfire during anti-occupation rallies along border of the Gaza Strip rose to 62, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Deaths includes eight children, including an eight-month-old baby girl who suffocated from severe tear gas inhalation. […]

5th May 2018

Palestine: Israeli excessive force in Gaza exacerbates suffering of children: UNICEF

By Fatih Erel GENEVA (AA): Israeli security forces have killed five Palestinian children and injured hundreds others during protests in Gaza over the past five weeks, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday. “Over the past five weeks, five children were killed and hundreds were injured in largely peaceful protests in Gaza,” UNICEF Regional […]

12th Jan 2018

Palestine: Two Palestinian children killed by Israeli fire in West Bank, Gaza

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinian children were killed on Thursday in clashes with Israeli forces that erupted in both the occupied West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. “Ali Qino, 16, was killed in clashes with the Israeli army that erupted in the village of Iraq-Burin south […]

6th Jan 2018

Palestine: Bedouin children school in Jerusalem faces Israeli demolition

By Qais Abu Samra AL-AZARIYA, Palestine (AA): Every morning, a group of Bedouin children gather to study at an enclave of single-roomed classes constructed of mud and tire near occupied East Jerusalem. The classes serve as the only school for children in the Abu al-Nawwar Bedouin community, which is hemmed in on all sides […]

15th Dec 2017

Palestine: Palestinian minors suffer ‘detention, abuse’ by Israel

By Gharib Suleiman JERUSALEM (AA): Amjad, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy, cannot forget the moment he was detained by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank two months ago. “I remember the incident as if it were yesterday,” Amjad, whose family preferred not to give his second name, told Anadolu Agency. The Palestinian boy was […]

20th Nov 2017

Palestine: Israel killed 14 Palestinian children in 2017

By Qais Abu Samra RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Israeli forces have killed 14 Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the start of this year, according to a Palestinian statistics agency. In a statement on Sunday, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said Israeli forces had killed 35 children in 2016. […]

8th Aug 2017

Palestine: Israel detained 880 Palestinians in July: NGOs

By Qais Abu Samra RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces rounded up 880 Palestinians last month, according to Palestinian NGOs. In a statement on Tuesday, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said 144 children and 18 women were among those detained in July. “A total of 425 residents of Jerusalem were among those arrested last month,” […]

20th Nov 2016

Palestine: 350 Palestinian minors languishing in Israeli jails

By Anees Barghothi RAMALLAH, (AA): A it least 350 Palestinian children are languishingn Israeli jails, a local Palestinian NGO said Saturday. “Israeli authorities are holding 350 Palestinian children aged between 12 and 18,” the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement on the occasion of the UN Universal Children’s Day. It said twelve females […]

19th Apr 2016

Palestine: 11 schoolgirls suffer effects of teargas inhalation in Hebron

IMEMC News: Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, has reported Monday that at least eleven children suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs on them. The sources said Red Crescent medics provided eleven students of the Zahra’ Elementary School for Girls […]

1st Jul 2015

Palestine: Israeli soldiers detain 2 Palestinian children

[Photo by Creative Commons: Israeli soldiers in Hebron June 2014] IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers kidnapped two Palestinian children in Yatta town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, handed nine families notices to stop the construction of their homes, and demolished three tents and sheds in Jebna village. The Popular Committee against […]

21st Jun 2015

Palestine: Israeli soldiers detain 2 children in Hebron

[File: Still image from YouTube Video] IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers kidnapped, late on Saturday, two Palestinian children in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Israeli settlers hurled stones on Palestinians and their property, in Hebron’s Old city. Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers kidnapped Fadi Nader an-Natsha, […]

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