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Defense for Children
@DCIPalestine
Ceased operations in 2026. Civil society organization dedicated to defending the human rights of Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Israeli forces killed 17-year-old Obaida Jawabreh today in Al-Arroub refugee camp in the southern West Bank. Obaida was the subject of a @DCIPalestine short film with the same name released in 2019. RIP Obaida.
- 12-year-old Dunia lost her leg in an Israeli airstrike that killed her whole family. We filmed this video with Dunia during the seven-day truce, and yesterday an Israeli tank-fired shell killed her while she was recovering in Naser Hospital in Khan Younis.
00:00 - On Sunday in Balata refugee camp, Israeli forces released a military dog on 4-year-old Ibrahim Hashash, who suffered internal and external injuries after the dog tore off his clothes and bit him for at least three minutes. ow.ly/ll8050QySUp
- BREAKING: Israeli forces raided our main office in Al-Bireh today around 5 a.m., confiscating computers, laptops, and files concerning our Palestinian child detainee clients in the Israeli military courts. We were not informed of the reason for the raid.
- GAZA UPDATE: More than 1,030 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7, or about one child every 15 minutes, and more than one-third of the total death toll.
- BREAKING: Israeli forces killed 5-year-old Alaa Abdullah Riyad Qaddoum today in an airstrike in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City. Alaa's father and six-year-old brother were injured in the same attack. #GazaUnderAttack
- Israeli forces shot and killed 11-year-old Mohammad Mo’ayyad Bahjat Abu Sara today near Beit Ummar north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Mohammad was shot while sitting in the back of his father's car and was pronounced dead after surgery at Al-Ahli hospital in Hebron.
- Israeli forces killed four Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank in the last 24 hours: Ahmad Mohammad Hamed Abu Al-Haija, 16; Mahmoud Khaled Mahmoud Abu Al-Haija, 17; Ammar Mohammad Faisal Abu Al-Wafa, 14; and Mohammad Riad Fathi Saleh Farhan, 15. dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces…
- NEW: Israeli forces assaulted & strangled 14-year-old Majd while detaining & interrogating him for 24 hours before releasing him on the side of the road, unable to walk. #nowaytotreatachild Read more: dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces…
- GAZA UPDATE: At least 724 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and shelling in the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to the Ministry of Health.
- Israeli forces shot & killed 17-year-old Palestinian-American Mohammad Ahmed Mohammad Khdour in the occupied West Bank yesterday. He was in a car with a relative in a wooded area west of Biddu when Israeli forces opened fired, striking him with two bullets in the head.
- Her name was Dunia Abu Mohsen. She survived an Israeli airstrike that killed her family in Gaza, only to die days later when Israel shelled the hospital she was recovering in. We illuminated her story across London for #HumanRightsDay. This is genocide.
00:00 - Israeli forces shot and killed 12-year-old Ahmad Abdulnaser Adnan Rabi today around 7 p.m. near Qalqilya in the northern occupied West Bank during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Ahmad sustained a gunshot wound to the waist.
