Palestinian Child Day 2011

Palestinian Child Day falls annually on April 5th. This is an annual event for the Palestinian community to celebrate their children and to call for action on issues and concerns affecting them.

-There are 2,150,000 children in the occupied Palestinian territory.

-Every year approximately 700 Palestinian children from the West Bank are prosecuted in Israeli military courts after being arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli army.




-There are about 800,000 children in Gaza; the majority of them have never traveled outside of Gaza.

-The Separation Wall dividing the West Bank from Jerusalem denies thousands of Palestinian children the right to the city.

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[medooco]

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