Our life stops’: West Bank childhood shattered by Israeli military raids
Key takeaways
- A new UN report documents killings, detentions and lasting psychological harm to Palestinian children.
- xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Five-year-old Khour, centre, holds an old family photograph of her parents before their arrest.
- Yanal, 14, wins the opening round on language skills alone.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
A new UN report documents killings, detentions and lasting psychological harm to Palestinian children. In the West Bank, those findings take concrete form.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Five-year-old Khour, centre, holds an old family photograph of her parents before their arrest. She sits between her cousins, who hold a picture of their father, also detained by Israeli forces [Leila Warah/Al Jazeera]By Leila Warah Published On 24 Jun 202624 Jun 2026Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – In the narrow alleyways of the Dheisheh refugee camp, three children debate which of their encounters with the Israeli military is worth telling, and who gets to tell it.
Yanal, 14, wins the opening round on language skills alone. He speaks three languages: Arabic, English and Spanish, and insists on telling his story in English.