🇵🇸 Testimonies from Gaza : 12-year-old Judy's family in Gaza does not have enough to eat | Defence for Children Palestine

12-year-old Judy and her family, including her sister Noor, who has cerebral palsy, were forced to flee their home in north Gaza during the Israeli military offensive. Now, they are struggling to find enough food to eat, especially for Noor, who is accustomed to a special diet.

#Gaza #Testimonies #Food #Water #Starvation #Disabilities #Refugees #IDP #Children
16/12/2023

🇵🇸 Palestinian storytellers bring joy to Gaza's children amid war

Hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza are experiencing psychological #trauma as a result of Israeli attacks. To ease their suffering, a group of traditional Palestinian #storytellers has organised musical entertainment for young people at a school in #KhanYounis, in southern Gaza.

Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar reports.

#Gaza #Children #School #Tradition #Trauma #IDP #Refugees #Music #ForcedDisplacement
20/12/2023

🇵🇸 Roya Hassouna, a displaced Palestinian woman, plays the oud for children at a camp in Rafah, creating a musical circle in a bid to support their mental health and to block out the sound of war planes amid Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza.

According to #Unicef, nearly a million Palestinian #children in Gaza have been forcibly displaced since the beginning of the war.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Gaza #Genocide #Trauma #Music #Oud #Musician #ForcedDisplacement #Rafah #NewNakba #Refugees #IDP #Testimonies
20/12/2023

🇵🇸 Interview with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur | PSC

Palestine Solidarity Campaingn spoke with Francesca Albanese about Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners, including children, and how imprisonment is used as a tool of #repression against Palestinians.

Francesca Albanese is UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967. She has published widely on the legal situation in Israel/Palestine; her latest book, Palestinian Refugees in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), offers a comprehensive legal analysis of the situation of Palestinian refugees from its origins to modern-day reality.

#Palestine #OPT #Children #Prisoners #Prison #Detention #UNSR #UN #FrancescaAlbanese
22/12/2023

🇵🇸 Gaza’s war through a child’s eye | Witness Documentary

In Deir Al Balah, an Israeli air strike hits the house next door to nine-year-old Elaf and her family. They had already escaped their home in the Bureij refugee camp after days of Israeli bombardment. When their dreams of a truce turn into reality, Elaf returns home to discover childhood treasures and the fate of her friends amidst the rubble. But as the truce ends and the bombardment restarts, Elaf and her family are forced to relocate once again.

#Gaza #Genocide #IDP #NewNakba #Children #Testimonies
25/12/2023

Israel required by law to reveal the fate of dozens of women arrested in Gaza, intl. community must investigate images and claims of torture, harassment | EuroMed HR Monitor

Geneva – Israel is obligated to disclose the whereabouts of the nearly 3,000 Palestinian #civilians—including #children as well as dozens of women—it has kidnapped from homes and shelter centres, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement urging the international community to put pressure on Israel to end its policy of enforced #disappearance.

According to information received by Euro-Med Monitor, over the past few days the Israeli army has been detaining hundreds of Palestinians in the #SheikhRadwan neighbourhood in Gaza City. Among them are dozens of #women who were taken to #YarmoukStadium, where they had their veils removed and were searched by soldiers. Many of them also endured explicit #abuse, #beatings, and #harassment.

Via @EuroMedHR
#Gaza #IOF #Abduction #Kidnapping #HR #Detention #Detainees
27/12/2023