The New York Times · 17 May 1990

CP-1990-023

Report Charges Violence Against Arab Children

Alan Cowell

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“Nearly a fifth of the children were shot dead while at home or within 10 meters of their homes. Over 50,000 people under 16 required medical treatment for their beating and other injuries in the first two years of the revolt.”

Context added by this archive

A report by the American researcher Anne Nixon for Radda Barnen, accusing Israeli soldiers of severe, indiscriminate and recurrent violence against children. The army’s answer, printed here, is that children are turned into martyrs and are engaged as foot-soldiers.

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"Report Charges Violence Against Arab Children," The New York Times, 17 May 1990. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1990-023. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1990-023

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