Palestinian children have suffered disproportionately as a result of the Israeli Occupation
“Palestinian children in Gaza are exposed to more violence in their
lifetime than any other people, any other children, anywhere in the
world. If you look at children right now who are 10 years old, they’ve
been through Cast Lead in 2008 and 2009, the invasion in 2012 and now
the invasion and destruction in 2014, in addition to the siege. If you
look at the statistics, for example, even before Cast Lead, 80 percent
of Palestinian children in Gaza have witnessed some sort of violence
against them, a friend or a family member. And now you’re getting to the
point where probably close to 99 percent of children in Gaza are being
exposed to a level of violence where they have seen family members be
killed, murdered, burned alive. There’s nothing like the levels of
traumatic exposure that any child in the world has ever been exposed to
on a chronic and daily basis.”
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