On February 7, 10 years old Saddam Rajab He died in a hospital in the occupied West Bank after he was shot by an Israeli soldier a few days ago. Saddam was standing in the street in front of his house when the Israeli soldiers invaded his village near Tolkram and began shooting.

CCTV shots show the moment when he was shot. He fell to the floor, grabbed his stomach and wanders in the position of the fetus. The first hospital that was transferred to him was unable to treat it, and therefore it had to be transferred to another in Naples. On the way, the ambulance was held for hours at a checkpoint where an Israeli soldier mocked Saddam’s father, saying: “I am the person who shot your son. God willing, he will die.”

Saddam is one of 13 Palestinian children The Israeli army has been killed in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the year. The number of children who have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied West Bank has exceeded 220 since January 2023.

Saddam’s story – like the stories of other Palestinian children’s victims – did not release international newspapers. There was no reaction from the international community to his death. This is because Palestinian children suffer from uncompromising humanity.

This is evident even in the few stories that get in the spotlight on the media, such as the six -year -old The price is created, Which was killed by the Israeli army in Gaza on January 29, 2024, almost a year before Saddam was shot. Along with her aunt, uncle and cousin, Hind was trying to evacuate Gaza City in a car when they were surrounded by the Israeli forces, who shot them.

While its relatives were killed, Hind escaped the initial fire attack and was able to communicate with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS). The recording released for its phone calls to PRCS requests help as Israeli tanks have been closed to the world.

The ambulance that was ever sent to rescue it is no longer, and Hind invitations stopped to PRCS. Nearly two weeks, the bodies of Hind, relatives and ambulance workers, Youssef Zaino and Ahmed Madhun were found. next Investigations It has been shown that the Israeli army shot the ambulance and the car in which Hind found, despite giving their coordinates.

While the Hind’s brutal death story topped the headlines of international newspapers – a rare issue between more than 17,000 children killed in Gaza – there are still attempts to cancel its humanity and deny it the situation of the child’s victim. For example, when reporting the University of Colombia’s student camp, which was launched after it, Explanation of CNN “Hind’s Hall” was a reference to a “woman” who was killed in Gaza.

Another terrible example of depriving the child’s condition for the Palestinian child is a report from January 2024 by Sky News, where one of the broadcasters claimed that: “By mistake, a stray bullet found her way to the truck forward, which killed three, three or a young lady He is four years old. ” This “young woman” was a Palestinian child named Rouqia Ahmed Audaya Jahlin, who was shot at the back by Israeli soldiers while sitting in a taxi with her family in the West Bank.

These examples show what Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the Palestinian academic academic, called the term to expose the process of stripping humanity that accompanies violence against children in a colonial context. In occupied and colonial Palestine, Palestinian children are stripped of their childhood in order to justify the brutality that is attached to them.

For decades, the Palestinian children were photographed by the Israeli regime and the West either below other children or not children at all; They are often equal to adults who have the ability to be “terrorists”. In this way, they are seen as dangerous in nature and are forbidden to put the “child” and the indication of the innocence that is granted to her.

It does not cover not to get rid of the killing and deformation of Palestinian children; It is also easy to kidnap, detain and abuse in Israeli prisons.

Last year, Ihham Al -SalaiyaThe 14 -year -old Palestinian boy from Celuan, Jerusalem, became the youngest Palestinian who is serving a prison sentence in an Israeli prison. Iham was arrested two years ago and accused of throwing stones at illegal Israeli settlers.

He was interrogated and placed under house arrest for two years, before being convicted under New Israeli legislation This allows Palestinian children to be imprisoned by the classified capital crimes as “terrorism”. Israel is A country only in the world This is tried systematically and imprisoning children.

The Israeli media routinely is deducting Palestinian children, such as Iham as possible security threats, dumped minors or human shields, in an attempt to justify prison and torture.

With the extension of genocide across Palestine, the horrific reality is that more Palestinian children and adults will be killed by the Israeli army while watching the world. Their killings will not be covered by the main western media, and there will be no interview slices with their families with pictures of pictures of their childhood, and there will be no condemnation data from world leaders. Palestinian children have been effectively stripped of their childhood and with them, their humanity.

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