According to the Palestine Red Crescent, 154 Palestinian minors (under 18) were killed in the period between September 29, 2000 and June 17, 2001; of these, 26 were children under the age of 12, including infants. The number of minors injured is estimated in the thousands...
A statistical analysis of the attacks that caused the deaths of children, reveals that about one-third of the children were hit in the head, about one-third in the chest, and the rest in various parts of the body. Among the wounded, a high percentage of children sustained eye injuries. During the first three months of the Intifada, 159 children suffered eye injuries, with 14 losing an eye. Many of the injured children will remain disabled.
Text: Children of the Battlefield, by Joseph Algazy; Haaretz, 9 Jul 2001.
Poster: If Americans Knew.
will come off. I wonder
will I see half an orange,
half an apple, half my
mother's face
with my one remaining eye?
I did not see the bullet
but felt its pain
exploding in my head.
His image did not
vanish, the soldier
with a big gun, unsteady
hands, and a look in
his eyes
I could not understand.
If I can see him so clearly
with my eyes closed,
it could be that inside our heads
we each have one spare set
of eyes
to make up for the ones we lose.
Next month, on my birthday,
I'll have a brand new glass eye,
maybe things will look round
and fat in the middle--
I've gazed through all my marbles,
they made the world look so strange.
I hear a nine-month-old
has also lost an eye,
I wonder if my soldier
shot her too -- a soldier
looking for little girls who
look him in the eye--
I'm old enough, almost four,
I've seen enough of life,
but she's just a baby
who didn't know any better.
Photo: T-shirt printed for members of an IDF
elite unit who had completed sniper training, reads "The smaller they
are - The harder it is!".
Source: Dead Palestinian babies and bombed mosques - IDF fashion 2009 (Ha'aretz); via Mondoweiss.
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