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JUNE 20, 2024 - "Yahya, 2, and Mohammad, 6, survived an Israeli strike in central Gaza that killed their 7-year-old brother, Adam, and destroyed their home.

"I now live in a tent next to the rubble of my house," said their father."

Emily Enchanted - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVmR3r3h3AtcA-drTSJR6tQ

Emily worked at the parks for the Spring 2018 intake and then received an offer for seasonal. She is a character performer. Her videos are super helpful about the program acceptance, checking in, and day in the life style vlogs. 

Olivia Simone - https://www.youtube.com/user/FCCheerLeader14

Olivia was a college program participant for multiple programs, she recently completed the Spring 2018 intake. She makes very informative videos about her experience, walk around vlogs and also really great sit down story telling. 

Carrie Hope Fletcher - https://www.youtube.com/user/ItsWayPastMyBedTime

JULY 3 2024 - Israeli authorities are systematically denying Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip access to medical treatment, exacerbating chronic health conditions and separating them from their families as part of Israel’s campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people.

Children with chronic diseases face significant challenges in accessing proper treatment in the Gaza Strip. Since Israeli authorities closed and isolated the Gaza Strip in 2007, Palestinian children have been living under continuous siege and frequent Israeli military offensives. Those with chronic illness bear even more acutely the impact of Israel’s ongoing 17-year closure of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian children from Gaza who were receiving treatment in Jerusalem hospitals were expelled from Jerusalem by Israeli authorities and transported to different cities in the occupied West Bank after October 7. 12-year-old Karam suffers from kyphoscoliosis of the cervical and dorsal spine and elevation of both shoulders. He has been diagnosed with cleidocranial syndrome. “I need to undergo surgery that will improve my health so I can live like other children, free from pain and challenges,” Karam said. Karam and his grandmother are not allowed to return to Gaza and reunite with their family, nor are they permitted access to health care in Jerusalem, but Karam hopes to undergo the surgery abroad.

MAY 28 2024- "Rimas, 11, survived for two days under the rubble of her family's home after Israeli forces bombed it in Gaza. Now, she and her family are displaced, and Rimas wants to go back to school."

"We stayed under the rubble for two days without food or water. We expected to die under the rubble. We didn't expect the tanks to come. After they bombed our house, the tanks approached us. The soldiers started shooting over our house. The tank drove over the house rubble. We made a small hole in the wall and we barely got out. Soldiers laughed at us and told us to move forward, neither to the right nor to the left." "I wish to go back to Gaza and play with my friends instead of this life that has no schools. I want to study in school instead of this life of fear of soldiers. I wish to be sitting at my school. I wish many things."

May 8th 2024- "An Israeli airstrike crushed 5-year-old Sham's hand and leg. She is traumatized and needs more care than hospitals in Gaza can provide.

"I don't want to see anyone," Sham says."

April 24 2024- "10-year-old Malak was injured in an Israeli airstrike near her home in Gaza not long after Israeli forces began their military offensive in October 2023. Her jaw was fractured and in order to heal, she needs a bone transplant."

December 21 2023 - Suhaib, a Palestinian boy from Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, was detained by Israeli forces for six months without charge or trial.

Video transcript:

"I was administratively detained for 6 months without charges. I was next to the wall. Suddenly, the soldiers noticed me. They fired at me to force me to stop. They rushed towards me and tied me up and started hitting me with their hands and feet. They blindfolded me and tied my hands and feet. They put me under the sun for 4-5 hours. Then I was moved in a jeep between several settlements. The jeep continued moving until one o’clock in the morning. Then I was transferred to prison. During the first 17 days, I was interrogated and brought before courts. The lawyer was telling me that I would be released soon. I have not been convicted of any charges. That’s why I was placed in administrative detention. There was no evidence against me to charge me with. Administrative detention is a form of imprisonment without charge or trial but based on “secret evidence” that is neither disclosed to the detainee nor the detainee’s attorney. When my administrative detention expired, I was happy because I would see my family and loved ones. I was surprised when they brought me a paper stating the administrative detention had been renewed for another 3 months. I returned to my prison bed. It was a difficult moment. I was shocked then. I started spending less time with fellow prisoners. I became less talkative. It is difficult to end your detention, and to receive renewal on the day you are supposed to be released.  When I finished my second detention order, I shaved, dressed, and prepared for my release. At the same time, I was ready to receive news of another extension. I prepared myself not to be shocked. After I was released, my life was ruined. I had a good job and I lost it. Before prison, I intended to complete my education, but my mentality changed and I no longer wanted to. I didn’t want to socialize with people. My life was ruined."

1 in 3 Palestinian child detainees in the occupied West Bank are held without charge or trial. By the end of June 2024, Israeli forces were detaining 226 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank. 75 are held without charge or trial in administrative detention, which is a record number since DCIP began monitoring child administrative detainees in 2008.