"We're rightly given many details about the three Israeli teenagers tragically killed (Thousands attend funerals of murdered Israeli teenagers, 2 July) but of the Palestinians also tragically killed in the past week? Shamefully, nothing. They are just "five Palestinians". In fact there have been seven Palestinians killed since the Israelis were kidnapped and, your readers might be interested to know that of these seven, four were also teenagers: Muhammad Dudeen, 14, Yusuf Abu Zagher, 18, Muhammad Abu Thahr, 15, and Nadim Nuwara, 17, the last two shot by Israeli snipers. Sadly but predictably, the taking of these young lives hasn't generated the same universal outrage"
and at Global Research
Official statistics from the Ministry of Information in Ramallah have revealed that 1,518 Palestinian children were killed by Israel’s occupation forces from the outbreak of the second Intifada in September 2000 up to April 2013. That’s the equivalent of one Palestinian child killed by Israel every 3 days for almost 13 years. The ministry added that the number of children injured by the Israelis since the start of the Second Intifada against Israel’s occupation has now reached 6,000.
“The International Day for the Protection of Children is on June 1,” said a spokesman, “but Palestinian children are still subject to attacks by the Israelis and Jewish settlers on an almost daily basis.”
Noting that 2012 saw an unprecedented rise in the number of children arrested by Israeli forces, the report pointed out that 9,000 Palestinians under 18 years old have been arrested since the end of September 2000. Almost half of the Palestinian population is under 18. Almost two hundred and fifty Palestinian minors are being held in prison by Israel; 47 of them are children under 16 years of age.
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