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<h1 class="title" id="page-title">Infographic: More than 1,400 children
killed by Israeli soldiers, settlers since 2000</h1>
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<p>This infographic provides some statistics about Israel’s systematic
violations of the human rights of Palestinian children.</p>
<span class="credit">(<a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/people/patrick-o-strickland"
typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Patrick
O. Strickland</a> and <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/people/rachele-lee-richards"
typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Rachele
Lee Richards</a>)</span> </div>
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<p>The Electronic Intifada’s contributor <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/people/patrick-o-strickland">Patrick
O. Strickland</a> and New York-based graphic designer <a
href="http://twitter.com/DocR0cket">Rachele Lee Richards</a> have
produced this powerful infographic that highlights the systematic
violence against Palestinian children.</p>
<p>Strickland contributed the following text to accompany the
infographic.</p>
<h2>Systematic violations</h2>
<p>The photograph, taken by <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/people/dylan-collins">Dylan Collins</a>,
shows <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/six-year-old-loses-eye-bullets-israel-promised-phase-out/12830">six-year-old
Mousab Sarahnin, who lost his eye when an Israeli soldier shot him in
the face</a> with a steel-coated rubber bullet on 27 September 2013.
According to witnesses and <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/defence-children-international-palestine-section">Defence
for Children International – Palestine Section</a> (DCI-PS), Mousab was
walking with his family in Fuwwar refugee camp when he was shot — and
was nowhere near demonstrations or clashes.</p>
<p>The statistics regarding Palestinian children in our infographic <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/content/child-fatalities">are taken
from DCI-PS</a>. The other statistics are derived from <a
href="http://www.yesh-din.org/userfiles/file/datasheets/DataSheet%20July%202013%20-%20Law%20Enforcement%20-%20Eng.pdf">a
July 2013 report</a> published by the Israeli human rights group Yesh
Din: they paint a picture of total impunity for Israeli soldiers and
settlers who harass and attack Palestinian children on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Not visible on the infographic is the alarming fact that 19 of the
twenty cases in which Israeli soldiers used Palestinian children as
human shields took place after Israel’s own <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/israeli-high-court">high court</a>
ruled that it was illegal. Nonetheless, there are no documented cases
of soldiers being reprimanded with jail time for this action.</p>
<h2>“Show the world what the army does to children”</h2>
<p>Due to size constraints, other gross violations against children are
absent, such as <a
href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/11/save-children-from-israel-deadly-drones-201311264457632240.html">instances
of children killed by Israeli drones</a> or the number of those <a
href="http://www.btselem.org/torture/201308_etzion">threatened with
sexual abuse</a> by police officers and soldiers.</p>
<p>In Israel’s own education system, on the other hand, textbooks
depict Palestinians as “refugees, primitive farmers and terrorists,” as
<a
href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/07/israeli-school-racism-claim">reported
in <em>The Guardian</em> in 2011</a>. The same textbooks attempted to
morally justify the killing of Palestinians as necessary for Israel’s
establishment.</p>
<p>Furthermore, nearly half of Jewish Israeli high school students aged
16 and 17 stated that they would refuse to have an Arab teacher,
according to an <a
href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.543446">August
2013 poll</a> published in the Israeli daily <em>Haaretz</em>.</p>
<p>While Israel’s political establishment continually attempts to
demonize Palestinian children, the sad fact is that it tries to hide
its own cultivation of hate in the education system. At the same time,
the Israeli army is engaged in an ongoing process of dehumanizing and
brutalizing Palestinian children.</p>
<p>As Sheikh Jibreen Saharnin, six-year-old Mousab’s uncle, <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/six-year-old-loses-eye-bullets-israel-promised-phase-out/12830">told
The Electronic Intifada in October</a>, “Take photos. Send it
everywhere in the world. Show the world what the Israeli army does to
children.”</p>
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