Stop the Wall has released a new study analysing how Israel’s policies target Palestinian children and childhood and how these are a necessary result of the logic of settler-colonial societies in front of the Indigenous population. We look at Israel’s own brand of apartheid and colonial policies as well as Palestinian strategies of resistance and […]
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Israel’s logic of elimination
Zionist ideologues and politicians have always known that a strategy of elimination was necessary in order to create the state of Israel on Palestinian land, despite the Palestinian people. Before and shortly after the Nakba in 1948, when 75-80 percent of the Palestinian population that lived on the land, on which Israel was established, were […]
What can you do?
Many people across the globe have been haunted by the images of Palestinian children affected by Israeli apartheid and occupation and impressed by their courage and steadfastness. Many organizations have reported about them. Yet, talking about Israeli attacks on Palestinian children is fraught with complexities, including the effort not to exploit the easy emotions evoked […]
A Palestinian pedagogy of liberation
The idea that children should be protected from the cruelty of this world is valid for those few that can do so by switching off the TV. Most parents across the globe have to find ways of bringing up children within an environment no child and no adult should ever live in. So do Palestinians. […]
Targeting education
The denial of the right to education is an essential part of Israel’s efforts to eliminate the Palestinian people, including by demolishing schools and denying Palestinians access to education. Israel’s denial of Palestinian access to proper education is embedded in apartheid as a tool of subjugation and colonization, as per the Convention on the Suppression […]
Israeli policies of physical elimination
Funeral of 12-year-old Mohammed al Alami, in the village of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron. Alami was shot by Israeli soldiers while sitting in the passenger side of his family’s car as he and his father returned from buying vegetables. July 29, 2021. (Oren Ziv/Activestills) The most basic form of elimination is the killing of […]
From January to August 2023 Israel has killed at least 38 Palestinian children, injured almost 1000, and 160 are lingering in Israeli jails. 2280 Palestinian children have been killed since January 2000. Beyond the shocking numbers and the painful stories behind each case, there is an evident pattern in Israeli policies. The settlers’ quest for […]
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Masafer Yatta: Urgent action needed to Defend the Defenders
In recent weeks, Israeli repression of human rights defenders in Masafer Yatta has intensified. This is part of a long-standing policy of intimidation and repression of non-violent activist work, particularly against HRDs affiliated with Youth of Sumud. The repression of HRDs in Masafer Yatta, most recent of which is the case of 19-year-old Mohammed Huraini […]
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Testimony of Mohammed Huraini in Israeli detention
On August 5, 2023, Israeli occupation forces arrested Mohammed Huraini from the village of Al-Twani, Masafer Yatta. Aged only 19 years old, Mohammed was was arrested several times by the Israeli military in the last couple of years. The recent detention of Mohammed comes as part of constant Israeli attempts to clamp down on activists […]
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Palestinians in Khirbet Tuba face increased settler violence
26-year-old Fatma Awad from Khirbet Tuba, Masafer Yatta was inside the cave that is her home preparing breakfast when a group of Israeli illegal settlers invaded her family’s land on August 2, 2023. The settlers sat up a tent near the family’s water well. “This is not the first time they do so,” Fatma asserted. The […]