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Activestills Photo: Al Araqib, Negev, Israel, 6.11.2009

Child plays as residents of Al Araqib work on their lands, Negev, Israel, November 6, 2009.

Palestinian Children and the Separation Wall: Photo Series by Samar Hazboun

CREATIVE AMPLIFICATIONS | Adults to Lean on

Palestinian artist Samar Hazboun has shown a special interest in the effects of Israeli occupation on Palestinian children in the West Bank. Hazboun’s 2013 series Detained: Confessions of

Palestinian Children Process Occupation Through Graphic Novels: Sharek Youth Forum Community Art Program

CREATIVE AMPLIFICATIONS | Emotional Resiliency

In winter 2013, an employee of the Ramallah-based Sharek Youth Forum and two British volunteers developed “Palestine Through Graphics,” a program to guide young Palestinians through the production of

Palestinian Artist Photographs Child Detainees and Their Families

CREATIVE AMPLIFICATIONS | TESTIMONIES | Age-appropriate Justice Proceedings

In April 2013, Palestinian artist Samar Hazboun released a Detained, a series of photographs of Palestinian child detainees and their families. The series, based on

“Five Broken Cameras” and Israeli Youth

CREATIVE AMPLIFICATIONS | MEDIA | Protection from Danger

In June 2012, Born Equal reviewed the Palestinian documentary film Five Broken Cameras, which documents anti-occupation protests in the West Bank village of Bil’in.

Israeli and Palestinian Musicians Explore Psychological Effects of Occupation on Israeli Soldiers

CREATIVE AMPLIFICATIONS | Protection from Danger

For years, Israeli mental-health professionals and non-governmental organizations (notably Breaking the Silence) have observed that military service in the West Bank often accustoms young

“When the Boys Return”: 2013 Documentary by Al-Jazeera English

CREATIVE AMPLIFICATIONS | MEDIA | Age-appropriate Justice Proceedings

In fall 2011, filmmaker Tone Anderson spent four months in the West Bank researching the arrest and detention of Palestinian children by Israeli security forces. In January 2013, Al-Jazeera

Formerly Detained Palestinian Children Animate Their Lives

CREATIVE AMPLIFICATIONS | Age-appropriate Justice Proceedings

In summer 2011, two groups of formally incarcerated Palestinian children produced short animated videos through a post-trauma rehabilitation program run jointly by the East Jerusalem YMCA and

Testimony #27 from Breaking the Silence’s August 2012 Report, “Children and Youth”

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Much of the media coverage of the Breaking the Silence’s August 2012 collection of testimonies on Israeli army mistreatment of Palestinian children concentrates on an incident described

Family Life in Susia, West Bank: 2011 ActiveStills Photography Project

CREATIVE AMPLIFICATIONS | MEDIA | Safe Homes

In 2011, members of the Israel/Palestine photojournalist collective ActiveStills held a series of photography workshops with women in Susia, a small Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills. (Susia