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Stolen Children, Stolen Lives, directed, filmed and produced by Gerry
O'Sullivan and edited by Cara Holmes, shows the arrests and abuses of
Palestinian children, aged between 9 and 15, in the West Bank, and
outlines the impact on these children and ex-Israeli soldiers.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources
of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and
increasingly imperiled by its devastation.

It is the goal of If Americans Knew to provide full and accurate
information on this critical issue, and on our power – and duty – to
bring a resolution.

Please click on any statistic for the source and more information.
Statistics Last Updated: June 3, 2011

Israeli and Palestinian Children Killed
September 29, 2000 - Present
124 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 1,463
Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29,
2000. (View Sources & More Information)

Israelis and Palestinians Killed
September 29, 2000 - Present

1,084 Israelis and at least 6,430 Palestinians have been killed since
September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information)
Israelis and Palestinians Injured
September 29, 2000 - Present
9,226 Israelis and 45,041 Palestinians have been injured since
September 29, 2000. (View Sources & More Information.)

Daily U.S. Military Aid to Israel and the Palestinians
Fiscal Year 2011

During Fiscal Year 2011, the U.S. is providing Israel with at least
$8.2 million per day in military aid and $0 in military aid to the
Palestinians. (View Sources & More Information)
Current Number of Political Prisoners and Detainees

1 Israeli is being held prisoner by Palestinians, while 5,935
Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel. (View Sources & More
Information)
Demolitions of Israeli and Palestinian Homes
1967 - Present
0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and 24,813
Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since 1967. (View
Sources & More Information)

Israeli and Palestinian Unemployment Rates

The Israeli unemployment rate is 6.4%, while the Palestinian
unemployment in the West Bank is 16.5% and 40% in Gaza. (View Sources
& More Information)
Current Illegal Settlements on the Other’s Land
Israel currently has 236 Jewish-only settlements and ‘outposts’ built
on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians do not have any
settlements on Israeli land. (View Sources & More Information)

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How Israel's Occupation Affects Palestinian Children
By Juan Cole

Mr. Cole is professor of Middle Eastern and South Asian History at the
University of Michigan and author of Sacred Space and Holy War (I.B.
Tauris, 2002). His website is: www.juancole.com.
Over one in five Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza (22.5
percent) now suffers from chronic or acute malnutrition. About one in
five is anemic. This mass of hungry humanity amounts to a population
the size of Minneapolis, about 380,000 kids.
Malnutrition in children makes them more likely to contract life-
threatening diseases. It permanently reduces intelligence and vastly
increases the rate of attention deficit disorder. Women who were
malnourished in their youths have increased rates of premature birth
and high blood pressure in pregnancy.

The occupying power in the territories, Israel, enjoys a per capita
income of some $17,000 per year, higher than Spain. In contrast, half
of Palestinian families must now borrow money just to buy food.

Palestinian terrorists certainly bear a great deal of the blame for
this tragedy, insofar as their horrific actions against innocent
Israeli civilians have understandably led Israel to close its borders
to Palestinian laborers. Unemployment is a prime source of the
problem.

Yet, while the scourge of terrorism in Israel has been unspeakable,
none of it has been committed by toddlers or infants. Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's current lockdown of the entire population of the West
Bank is a massive form of collective punishment that has worsened the
problem. As the occupying power, Israel cannot escape responsibility
for seeing that its colonial subjects are at least fed.

The specter of a rich occupying country presiding over a famished
subject population is not unusual in history. Nobel Prize winner
Amartya Sen has pointed out that colonial and other undemocratic
governments often allow hunger and famines, since they are insulated
from popular protest.

Famously, even in the midst of the Great Hunger in Ireland of 1845
through 1850, eight ships a day left Ireland carrying exports of
wheat, barley, oats, beef, pork, butter and eggs, sent abroad by
British landlords while their peasants starved.

The French, who ruled Algeria 1830 to 1962, claimed to be on a
"civilizing mission" to their subjects. Yet their policies of selling
grain reserves on the world market led to a massive famine in the late
1860s when droughts produced starvation and pestilence.

Only the intervention of the French colonial authorities could have
forestalled the deaths of thousands, but such officials have often
maintained in history that they bear no responsibility for averting
famine deaths. Some 300,000 Algerians died of hunger or of the
consequent disease outbreaks.

In Sen's classic case, the British civil service in India failed to
stop the starvation of three million Bengalis in 1943. He argues that
famine is not caused by lack of food, but by an increased inability of
the poor to afford it. Only government intervention, he argues, can
stop such a tragedy.

That Palestinian children are not going so far as actually to die from
their hunger in great numbers has helped conceal the depth of the
crisis. Israel has ruled the West Bank and Gaza since it conquered
them in 1967, and cannot disclaim responsibility for a population
still under its military rule. A Palestinian Authority constantly
under attack and immobilized cannot be expected to do hunger relief.

A wealthy and militarily powerful Israel is responsible under the
Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 to see that persons living under its
occupation are not harmed. Letting 380,000 children go chronically or
acutely hungry is a serious violation of international law.

Since the United States still gives Israel billions of dollars every
year and has acquiesced in the current West Bank reoccupation and
curfew, it also bears a responsibility for this tragedy. The Palestine
issue has dropped out of news coverage, and even when it is noticed
the focus is on strutting adult male politicians and military men.
Will anyone speak for the children?


Israeli arrests and abuses of Palestinian Children, the impact on them
and the impact on soldiers. Stolen Children, Stolen Lives part 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zaeERjVReE

Stolen Children, Stolen Lives part 2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9mDscNEws4&feature=related