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The entrance to Laylak cafe, Dheisheh refugee camp. (Fatima AbdulKarim)

The cafe where Palestinian children look out for each other

Supported by DCI-Palestine, teens in Dheisheh refugee camp are creating a space for their peers to bond and learn amid the violence of occupation.

By Fatima AbdulKarim October 3, 2022

Al-Haq's executive director Shawan Jabarin, next to Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, speaks to the media after the Israeli army raided the offices of several Palestinian NGOs, Ramallah, the West Bank, August 18, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

‘You will pay the price’: Shin Bet threatens Palestinian NGO directors

Undeterred by foreign criticism, Israel warns heads of two human rights groups of imprisonment and prosecution days after raiding their offices.

By Oren Ziv August 22, 2022

Israeli soldiers confiscate computer equipment and client files in a raid on the offices of Defense for Children International - Palestine, Al-Bireh, West Bank, July 29, 2021. (DCI-P)

Israel raided our office and outlawed our NGO. But we’re still fighting

It has been a year since Israeli forces seized DCI-Palestine’s office equipment and criminalized our work. But our solidarity networks are only growing.

By Khaled Quzmar August 4, 2022

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Palestinian children light candles during a protest near destroyed buildings in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, May 25, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

This was the deadliest year for Palestinian children since 2014

Instead of holding perpetrators accountable, Israel is criminalizing the work that organizations like mine are doing to protect Palestinian children's rights.

By Khaled Quzmar December 14, 2021

Palestinians harvest strawberries in a field in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Dec. 30, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)

How an Israeli smear campaign is ripping away funds from Palestinian farmers

Israel lobby groups are targeting the funding sources of a major Palestinian agricultural union — by dubiously claiming it has ties to 'terrorists.' Other Palestinian organizations are facing the same attacks.

By Alex Kane and Mariam Barghouti January 25, 2021

A Palestinian boy walks near Israeli soldiers in the Old City of Hebron, occupied West Bank, July 4, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

US guns are being aimed at Palestinian kids. Washington can take them away

The impunity enjoyed by Israeli soldiers has fostered an increasingly trigger-prone policy against Palestinian children. Americans have ways to prevent it.

By Brad Parker December 28, 2020

Fadi Ibrahim Abu Khusa (4) holds the photo of his two killed siblings, Shahed (9) and Mohammed (2), in their home in Zawaida village, central Gaza Strip, February 24, 2015. The two children were killed with their parents, Ibrahim and Sabreen, and 4 other members of their family by an Israeli attack on their home which occured on July, 30, 2014. Ibrahim and Sabreen went to the home of Sabreen's father one week before the attack thinking they would be safer. (Anne Paq / Activestills.org)

I was meant to talk about Palestinian kids at the UN. Israel forced me out

Belgium caved into Israeli pressure to disinvite me from the Security Council. In doing so, they helped undermine human rights work for Palestinian children.

By Brad Parker February 24, 2020

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) speaks at the 2019 J Street National Conference, October 28, 2019. (Photo courtesy of J Street)

For J Street, holding Israel accountable is still a step too far

J Street's 2019 conference heralded a new willingness to challenge unconditional military aid to Israel. But the organization was quick to reaffirm the status quo.

By Joshua Leifer November 7, 2019

Illustrative photo of Israeli Border Police officers frogmarching a Palestinian detainee in East Jerusalem during the tension surrounding Al-Aqsa Mosque, July 21, 2017, East Jerusalem. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Palestinian rights make a rare appearance in Congress

A first-of-its-kind bill introduced this week focusing on the rights of Palestinian children could pave the way for greater transparency and accountability in America’s dealings with Israel. Members of Congress on Tuesday introduced a bill requiring the U.S. Secretary of State to certify that funds bound for Israel “do not support military detention, interrogation, abuse, or…

By Samer Badawi November 15, 2017

Palestinian children collect scrap metal and materials after Israel’s 2014 assault on the Gaza Strip, Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, November 9, 2014. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Israel’s wars in Gaza propel child labor for Palestinian kids

The military offensives enmesh and worsen widespread poverty in Gaza, which in turn drives children into the labor market to help support their families. By Cody O’Rourke When an Israeli airstrike destroyed 12-year-old Rezek’s house west of Gaza City in 2012, his family lost everything, forever altering his life. His family fell into economic hardship…

By +972 Magazine October 26, 2016

A military illumination flare burning the face of Abdel-Rahman al-Dabbagh, which killed him, Gaza Border, September 9, 2016. (Screenshot, DCI-Palestine)

IDF soldiers shoot flare at teen’s face, killing him

Israeli soldiers fire illumination flares, at a direct trajectory, at stone-throwers along the Gaza border. A 15-year-old boy is killed. The IDF says it’s conducting an ‘inquiry.’ Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian teenager by shooting a military-grade illumination flare directly at him, shattering and setting his face on fire last month, according to investigations by B’Tselem,…

By Haggai Matar October 15, 2016

A Palestinian child with ash on his face sits in one of the newly established camps with metal caravan shelters for displaced people in the village of Khuza’a, eastern Gaza Strip, November 9, 2014. (photo: Activestills.org)

UN details violence against Palestinian kids, leaves Israel off ‘blacklist’

The number of Palestinian children killed in 2014 was the third-highest of all situations the UN monitored — after Afghanistan and Iraq. Israel and Hamas are left off a list of rights-violating states and groups, allegedly as a result of political pressure. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took a last-minute decision to leave Israel off the UN’s…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland June 10, 2015

Palestinian school students pass by some destroyed buildings and homes in the Shujaiya neighborhood, Gaza city, September 15, 2014. (Photo by Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

In Gaza, justice delayed is justice denied

Israeli army investigators have not even contacted the teenage victim of one of the few alleged war crimes it says it is probing. More than two months after Israel’s assault on Gaza began, victims of the air, land, and sea invasion continue to have no recourse against their occupiers. It’s been nearly two months since 17-year-old…

By Samer Badawi September 17, 2014