Friday, March 22, 2024
The object is to indoctrinate these children with learned helplessness. The military arrest and detention experience suffocates a child's sense of agency. They can miss a school year, end up being in classes one year younger than their friends, and often have unhealed trauma. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have described this abuse of children as pursuing an "intent to dominate" and "systematic oppression" to maintain the system of Israels apartheid. Save the Children Report 2023 noted that in the last 20 years, an estimated 10,000 Palestinian children have been held in the Israeli military detention system. And that approximately 500-700 Palestinian children experience military detention each year. |
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