Child Rights Briefing: January 2018
News and updates on the situation of Palestinian children.
Year-in-review: Worst abuses against Palestinian children in 2017
Ramallah, January 18, 2018—Last year marked 50 years of Israeli military occupation, with no signs of abatement in Palestinian children’s vulnerability to injury and abusive military arrest in the West Bank. Rapidly devolving living conditions in the Gaza Strip put in jeopardy the most basic human rights, as children became collateral damage in an internal Palestinian political standoff. Read more »
Israeli forces shoot dead two Palestinian teens, injure another
Ramallah, January 12, 2018—Israeli forces opened fire, killing two Palestinian teenagers and seriously injuring a third, during clashes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) on January 11. Read more »
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian teen in violent start to 2018
Ramallah, January 8, 2018—Israeli forces killed a 16-year-old Palestinian and critically injured another teen in two apparent instances of excessive use of force against Palestinian children. Read more »
