Stolen childhood

Palestinian children and the structure of genocidal dispossession

Bibliographic Data

ID19001633
AuthorsNadera Shalhoub‐kevorkian (0000-0002-2807-0540, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Year2015
Volume6
Issue2
Pages142-152
Publication date2015-04-15
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSettler Colonial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1838-0743 • E-ISSN: 2201-473X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2201473x.2015.1024380
OpenAlexW2029884787
LanguageEN
Citations received11

A recent article published by the Wadi-Hilweh Information Center of Silwan described the arrest of a four-year-old Palestinian child, Mohammad, from the Al-Sa'dyeh neighborhood of Occupied East Jerusalem. In the early hours of Thursday, 28 November, a large military force broke into the Al-Majed family home. Waking his parents from sleep, the soldiers demanded to see Mohammad. ‘Are you sure?’ his father asked one of them, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, ‘Mohammad is only four years old!’ The officer was not convinced and asked his father to wake the boy. Mohammad's father led the soldiers to the room where the children were gathered. He pointed to Mohammad. ‘Do you want to arrest him? Should I send diapers and milk because he's going to need them.’ After realizing that indeed, Mohammad was a mere four years old, and after asking his father a series of questions about the child and his friends, and inquiring into claims that he had injured an Israeli settler, the officer retreated on his arrest order. Leading the other soldiers out of the family home, he warned the family that if the boy was found guilty, he would return to call him for investigation

Criminology · Officer · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Thursday · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society · Psychology

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