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Confirmed reports reveal that treatment of Palestinians, not health concerns, are behind decision to forgo presidential conference

Since January 2013, Israeli authorities have held at least seven Palestinian youths, ages 16 to 17, in solitary confinement for periods ranging from 2 to 21 days, according to DCI-Palestine research.

Study of Israel's discriminatory practices links water grab to settlement expansions in occupied Palestinian territory

Eight-year-old Ahmed Abu Rimaileh was not the youngest of the children, schoolbags on their backs, that Israel Defense Forces soldiers took into custody early on Wednesday, last week: His friend, Abdel Rahim, who was arrested with him, is only 7, and in first grade.

Cousins Maya, Marwa, and Maya are recent refugees from the war in Syria. They are Palestinian and grew up in a camp in Syria but have fled to another Palestinian camp, Shatila, in Beirut. Here they tell us how different life in the camps is and how Shatila lives up to its reputation of having 'horrible living conditions' according to the UN. They now live as 'double-refugees' in Lebanon. They are 11-13 years old.

Palestinian children in the South Hebron Hills wait each day for an Israeli military escort because the road to reach their school passes by Israeli settlements and often the settlers attack the children. The military escort is frequently late forcing the children to wait outside in the rain or hot sunshine. The local community decided to erect a tent for the school children, similar to the idea of a bus shelter in other parts of the world, but settlers' called out "Kill all the Arabs" as the local community erected the tent and the Israeli military demolished it almost immediately. 

Saleha Hamdeen, a 14 year old Bedouin from Palestine, won the International Hans Christian Andersen Award for her fairy tale, "Hantoush," which was chosen from among more than 1,200 fairy tale entries from all over the world. 

In jail, my fellow hunger strikers and I are doing battle against the Israeli occupation that humiliates our people.

This disturbing image shows the back of the head of a child or young man as seen in the crosshairs of a rifle. The photo was posted on the personal Instagram account of Mor Ostrovski, a 20-year old Israeli soldier in a sniper unit.