Stolen Children, Stolen Lives

Live From Occupied Palestine

Dear friends, please find below a very powerful short film, in two parts, on the appalling abuse of Palestinian children by Israeli Occupation Forces.

In solidarity, Kim


Part 1


Part 2

Posted by Kim at 2:37 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zaeERjVReE&nofeather=True

Posted by Kim at 2:37 AM

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UN official: Israel killed 1,300 Palestinian children since 2000

[ 03/05/2011 - 12:00 PM ]

AMMAN, (PIC)-- Israel directly killed more than 1,300 Palestinian children since the onset of the millennium, a UN official said in a new report.

They shot those children dead those children during direct military operations, said Richard Falk, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.

He said seventeen Palestinian children were killed in 2010 alone while trying to gather gravel to help rebuild their families' homes destroyed during the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. Israel has prohibited the entry of building materials during its blockade of the tiny enclave.

Quds Press quote Falk as saying during a press conference he held in the Jordanian capital Amman on Monday that Israel has some 226 Palestinian children detained in its prisons, held without specific charges.

Falk, who Israel has banned from entry into the Palestinian territories, said that the continued Gaza siege and escalation of Israeli abuses has led to major deterioration in the human rights situation of the children's mental and physical health in the Strip.

He called on the UN to exert efforts to force Israel to bind by international laws.

He said that he holds that contradiction in Israel's application of international law signals systematic racial discrimination against the Palestinians.

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Thousands of Palestinians attend 9th Aqsa child festival

[ 24/04/2011 - 10:41 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- More than 15,000 Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem and the 1948 occupied lands attended on Saturday the ninth festival of the Aqsa child and the third drawing contest for kids in the Aqsa Mosque's courtyards.

Deputy head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib expressed his extreme delight to see such crowds attending this event to show their attachment to their holy sites.

For his part, head of the higher Islamic commission Sheikh Ikrima Sabri urged in his speech the participating parents and teachers to break the barrier of fear inside the hearts of their children and students and familiarize them with the Islamic values of courage and honesty.

The festival included songs, poetry and awards for the winning boys and girls in the drawing contest.

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Abu Zuhri: Israel to blame for death of shocked Palestinian girl

[ 23/04/2011 - 04:55 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas has held Israel responsible for the death of a Palestinian girl who suffered severe psychological trauma after Israeli soldiers blocked her from touching her father during a jail visit.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a press statement on Saturday that Israel was to blame for the death of the girl Abeer al-Iskafi after she was psychologically traumatized during a jail visit to her father Yousef al-Iskafi from Al-Khalil.

He called the crime a ”depiction of the inhumane treatment and the policy of deprivation experienced by Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and their families”.

He added that the incident requires increased efforts to promote the prisoners' cause internationally and induce greater pressure on Israel to stop its maltreatment of Palestinian prisoners and ensure their release.

Abeer al-Iskafi, 11, died Thursday night after a long period of sickness that followed severe psychological trauma she sustained after she was prevented from touching her father during a visit while he was held in Israeli custody.

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Israeli court imposes house arrest on two Jerusalemite children

Israeli court imposes house arrest on two Jerusalemite children

[ 23/04/2011 - 07:34 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli magistrate court in occupied Jerusalem imposed house arrest on two Palestinian minors at the pretext of attacking Jewish settlers' houses.

The court sentenced Ibrahim Siyam, 15, and Yazan Siyam, 16, to one week house arrest in their homes in Silwan town south of the Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.

It also ordered their families to escort them to and from school for five days after the conclusion of the house arrest.

Local sources said that the children were detained and questioned over the past two days before they appeared in the court hearing on Friday.

Israeli interrogators question Jihad prisoners
Palestinian prisoners suffer amid medical neglect
Palestinian man arrested in Al-Khalil Saturday morning

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Rising above

عصفور طل من الشباك




Rising above


Soaked in humiliation
Standing in the corner
Of the -security check- cubical
All alone
No mum to hold my hand
Or calm down my fear
No dad to hide my shame
And wipe my tears away
No shoes, no socks, no clothes
Not even underwear
After being stripped
By her…





The stern face
Of this woman soldier
Was looking down at me
In fury and contempt

She started her interrogation:
Where are you going to?
Palestine, my little shaky voice replied
Where are you going to? louder and firmer
Palestine, swiftly this time
There is no Palestine, do you understand
No more Palestine
Where are you going? shouting with rage
Palestine, assertively
Determined to deny her the pleasure
Of hearing the word
She wanted to hear

A refugee, visiting my stolen Palestine
For the first time
Since the occupation
A little girl of nine
Defiant, full of dignity, I leave
Holding in my heart
My very own victory

90% of detained Palestinian minors tortured in Israeli jails

[ 19/04/2011 - 05:04 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Palestine branch of the international movement for the defense of children said in a statement on Tuesday that 90% of Palestinian minors detained in Israel were tortured one way or another.

It said the Israeli occupation forces rounded up 1000 Palestinians less than 18 years old during 2010 mostly in Jerusalem and areas adjacent to the separation wall.

It said that by the end of 2010 around 213 of those minors were still in custody and the number increased to 226 by March 2011.

The legal coordinator of the movement lawyer Iyad Misk said that 700 Palestinian minors from the West Bank face trials each year at the hands of the Israeli occupation authority after detention and interrogation.

1. Relatives of prisoners appeal for allowing visits
2. Israeli prison administration forces women prisoners to wear orange costume
3. PA militias kidnap three Hamas members in W. Bank
   

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