Protecting Palestinian Intifada children: Peaceful demonstrators, child soldiers or child martyrs?

International Journal of Children's Rights

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 71-88

  Veerman, Philip ^a   Levine, Hephzibah ^a  

^a Defense for Children International ^*  (Israel)

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EID: 4644307414     PISSN: 09275568     EISSN: 15718182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15718180120494865     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. DCI-Israel and IMUT (Mental Health Workers for Peace) addressed this issue already in 1993 with their report, A Situation Analysis of Palestinian Children in the West Bank and Gaza (Jerusalem: June 1992-May 1993).
2. Ha'aretz newspaper, 7 May 2001.
3. B'tselem: The Israel Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, June 1993 Information Sheet on the Killing of Palestinian Children and the Open-Fire Regu lations, p. 16.
4. B'Tselem, Illusions of Restraint: Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Territories (Jerusalem: 29 September-2 December 2000).
5. The Jerusalem Post, 21 September 1989.
6. State of Israel, Ministry of Justice, Human Rights and International Relations Dept., Information Paper on Children as Participants in the Intifada (Jerusalem: 26 November 1989).
7. Status of the Children Committee, The Knesset Parliamentary Debates (29 November 2000), p. 14.
8. Additional Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Mr. Olara Otunnu, submitted in accordance with General Assembly Resolution 53/128, 2000.
9. Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict to the Convention on the Rights of the Child," International Review of the Red Cross (Geneva: 2000, 82 (839)), pp. 797-809.
10. Preceding this, Council of Delegates of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement adopted a Resolution on Child Soldiers in Budapest in 1991.
11. Like the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, Israel is not a signatory for the ILO Convention 182.
12. From an interview with Olivier du Bouis, Legal Advisor of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Tel Aviv.
13. The New York Times, 2 August 2000.
14. Press Release, The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 4. 11. 2001
15. Keesing's Contemporary Archives, Vol. XXII (London: 1976), pp. 27886-27888.
16. ECOSOC E/CN.4/2000/71 Commission on Human Rights, fifty-sixth session, Agenda item 13 of the provisional agenda, submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 53/128.
17. Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, Update 7-2000 (20 October-7 November 2000).
18. Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, Draft Proposal on Armed Groups and child Soldiers, 2 October 2000.
19. H. Antonovsky, "The Blood of Palestinian Children" Ha'aretz newspaper, 7 September 1998.
20. The Committee's report in Ha'aretz newspaper, 28 October 1990.