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Under Attack: Settler Violence against Palestinian Children in the Occupied Territory

Document number
2165
Date
2008
Title
Under Attack: Settler Violence against Palestinian Children in the Occupied Territory
Author/publisher
Defence for Children International / Palestine Section (DCI/PS)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Violence, Human rights violation, Crime against humanity, War crime, Armed conflict, Post-conflict situation, Terrorism,
Summary
Throughout 2007 and the first half of 2008, Defence for Children International - Palestine Section (DCI/PS) directly investigated nine separate incidents of settler attacks resulting in injuries to 12 Palestinian children. Included among them are five beatings, two shootings and two stone-throwing incidents. Five attacks took place in the Nablus Governorate and one in the Hebron Governorate where settler attacks are particularly widespread. Four attacks occurred while children grazed animals or collected fruit and wood from their family's land while one attack took place as schoolchildren walked to school. This report is based on evidence gathered by DCI/PS from the period January 2007 - June 2008 and is limited to settler attacks on Palestinian children in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
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