❶ Israel sentences 18-year-old Palestinian to 14 years in Israeli prison
. . . ❶ ― (ᴀ) Sentencing 4 children…releasing 8 Jerusalemites…extensions of arrest

• Background from “Childhood: A Universalist Perspective For How Israel Is Using Child Arrest And Detention To Further Its Colonial Settler Project.” International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies.   “Palestinian children are viewed as security threats and therefore thrust outside of acceptable and established human rights framework.”

❷ Israeli forces beat 11 Palestinian boys in Jerusalem
. . . ❷ ― (ᴀ) Israeli forces killed 11 minor students in Jerusalem
❸ ISM: IOF teargas Palestinian children on 2nd day of school

• From: “Childhood: A Universalist Perspective . . . “

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❶ ISRAEL  SENTENCES  18-YEAR-OLD  PALESTINIAN  TO  14  YEARS  IN  ISRAELI  PRISON 
Ma’an News Agency
Sept. 2, 2016
An Israeli military court Thursday sentenced 18-year-old Nael Tabib from the village of Azzun in the occupied West Bank district of Qalqilya to 14 years in Israeli prison, according to a statement released by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).
___PPS said in the statement that Tabib was detained on December 26, 2014 when he was just 16 years old. He was only officially sentenced on Thursday.
___However, it remained unclear on Friday what charges were brought against Tabib.    MORE . . .

. . . ❶ ― (ᴀ) SENTENCING  4  CHILDREN… RELEASING  8  JERUSALEMITES… EXTENSIONS OF ARREST 
Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan
August 31, 2016
The District judge sentenced four children from the village of Esawyeh to actual imprisonment while the Magistrate judges decided to extend the arrest of several Jerusalemites for interrogation.
___Lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud explained that the District judge sentenced the children Majd Mustafa, Mohammad Obeid and Hani Naser for 3 months of actual imprisonment and a suspended probation of three months for three years while Yehya Dirbas was sentenced for 4 months of actual imprisonment; they were all accused of throwing stones.  MORE . . .

• From: Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera. “Childhood: A Universalist Perspective for How Israel Is Using Child Arrest and Detention to Further Its Colonial Settler Project.” International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 12.3 (2015): 223-244.     SOURCE.

. . . Palestinian children are viewed as security threats and therefore thrust outside of acceptable and established human rights framework . . .  Mohammed Zine al-Majid, for example, was only four years old when an arrest warrant was issued in his name. His home was invaded by soldiers in the middle of the night, and he was subjected to immense fear, woken from his sleep to watch his parents beg the Israeli police and military personnel to leave him alone. Mohammed’s father recalled asking the armed officers who raided his home in search of his toddler son, “Are you sure you have an arrest warrant?”. . .  Mohammed’s father could not believe that such a young boy could be considered a threat. Although the authorities left once they realized they had made mistake, the damage was already done. Legally, Mohammed was not treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention or the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, and the attack on his psychic well-being and body was not defined by those coming to arrest him as abuse, but rather, as his father explained to me, a “legal act.”

Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian grew up in Haifa, Israel and now lives in Jerusalem. She received a Ph.D. in 1994 from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been visiting professor, Faculty of Law, at UCLA and USC, and is lecturer, Faculty of Social Work, at The Hebrew University. She is a criminologist and specialist in human rights.

❷ ISRAELI  FORCES  BEAT  11  PALESTINIAN  BOYS  IN  JERUSALEM
Days of Palestine
Sep 1, 2016
Israeli occupation forces beat 11 Palestinian boys in Jerusalem’s Old City with their butts of their rifles and electric batons on Tuesday and Wednesday.
___Palestinian sources said that the Israeli occupation forces assaulted six Palestinians boys while they were walking through Bab Hitta of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City on Tuesday evening.
___On Wednesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces also assaulted a group of five football player, who are all under the age of 15, in Wadi al-Joz, north of the Old City.  MORE . . .
. . . ❷ ― (ᴀ) ISRAELI  FORCES  KILLED  11  MINOR  STUDENTS  IN  JERUSALEM [Since October 2015]
Days of Palestine
Aug 29, 2016
Israeli occupation forces have killed 11 Palestinian minor students, arrested 124 others in Jerusalem since last October, Palestinian official statement said on Monday.
___According to the statement, students in the occupied city of Jerusalem did not meet their colleagues when they returned to school on Sunday.
___The statement noted that the 11 students were murdered either during protests or house raids across the neighbourhoods of the occupied holy city.     MORE . . .

❸ ISM:  IOF  TEARGAS  PALESTINIAN  CHILDREN  ON  2ND  DAY  OF  SCHOOL
Palestine News Network
Sep. 1, 2016
On 29 August, 2016, Israeli forces at Salaymeh checkpoint, in occupied Hebron fired rounds of tear gas as school-children attempted to make their way home through the heavily militarised checkpoint.
­­­___The Salaymeh checkpoint, for many school-children, is one of the unavoidable checkpoints on the daily way to school and back home. . .
___On Monday, the second day of school after the 3-month summer holidays, as children were starting to pour out of the schools around noon, Israeli forces threw a stun grenade towards a group of children.     MORE . . .  

• From “Childhood: A Universalist Perspective For How Israel Is Using Child Arrest. . . “

To understand Palestinian children . . . and to be ethically attentive to their experiences . . .  it is imperative to first determine the underlying motives and capabilities of settler colonialism. Settler colonialism is an “inherently eliminatory” practice that seeks to evict the native by producing unequal relationships through a number of tactics, including “incarceration, criminalization and institutionalization” in order to remove indigenous people. . . .  Importantly, within the settler colonial context, indigenous populations are subject to the logic of elimination by which space, temporality, and the life of the native are not conceived as possessing the same sovereign rights as the colonizer. . .
___Palestinian newborns are framed as a demographic problem that constitutes an imminent security threat to the Israeli state. One Israeli military prosecutor pointed to a widespread belief that every Palestinian child is considered a “potential terrorist.” Formulating Palestinian children as biopolitical dangers and security threats situates them, always and everywhere, as unwanted. . . .  The settler colonial project is ongoing and has positioned itself to continue indefinitely . . . .  In the Palestinian context, the settler colonial logic of elimination has operated in a diversity of ways throughout history, including ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, housing demolitions, incarcerations, and mass killings.
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Despite these human rights abuses and international urgings to adopt policies that acknowledge Palestinian children’s basic human dignity, Israel has failed to implement human rights groups’ suggestions for reform. Of the 645 formal complaints that were filed against the Israeli Security Agency interrogators for alleged maltreatment and torture between January 2001 and late 2010, no criminal investigations were ever conducted . . .  although the Israeli Foreign Ministry publicly agreed to incorporate the UNICEF report’s (2013) recommendations. . .  Israeli soldiers interacting with and arresting children have remained largely unchanged in their policies and attitudes . . .  Data suggests that violations and rights abuses against youth are consistently ongoing. . . . A new report by Defense for Children International – Palestine even recorded a three percent increase in the police persecution of Palestinian children from March to April 2014.
___Israel justifies its legalized violence against Palestinian children by criminalizing them as inherently “terrorist” . . .  who pose “security threats” to the national polity . . .  the settler colonial project has led the Israeli state to view Palestinian children as the embodiment of ungovernable violence. . . . The Israeli state thus situates Palestinian children outside the standard framework of legitimized rights, denying them their value and morality and making them vulnerable to state sanctioned violations of their basic human rights and dignities.