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Caged and dismembered: Israel’s “Unchilding” policy for Palestinian children – Pearls and Irritations

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories. 17th Oct, 2023. A Palestinian child injured in an Israeli shelling on the Ahli Arab hospital, sits at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, hundreds of people were killed and injured in an Israeli airstrike on Ahli Arab hospital that houses thousands of refugees. Image: Mohammad Abu Elsebah/dpa/Alamy Live News

The Rabbi’s rats

The victimisation by Israel of Palestinian children is so profound that Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkain, a Hebrew University of Jerusalem law professor, has described it as “Unchilding,” that is, in order to “eliminate the next generation of Palestinians, Israel treats Palestinian children as both nobodies who are unworthy of global children’s rights and as dangerous and killable bodies needing to be caged and dismembered, physically and mentally”.

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