Chris Hedges: Letter to the Children of Gaza

“We have failed you. This is the awful guilt we carry. We tried. But we did not try hard enough.” — Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges
By Chris Hedges
Children of Gaza – by Mr. Fish

Dear child, It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because of you. You have never been in a plane. You have never left Gaza. You know only the densely packed streets and alleys. The concrete

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Weapons Contractors Kill 11,000 Children While Reading Fairy Tales

BAE Systems doesn’t want us to only think of them as serial murderers. According to their PR department, they are also interested in reading fairy tales to children. 

Lee Camp
By Lee Camp
BAE Systems Feature photo

A UN report recently revealed that at least 11,000 children have been killed or maimed in the US-backed War in Yemen. At the same time, the weapons contractors that helped create this massacre are reading fairy tales to British children! You probably already know that, as reported by Alex Kane for In These Times in 2019, “Saudi Arabia, one of

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Viral Video Shows IDF Arresting Vegetable-Picking Palestinian Kids at Behest of Israeli Settlers

“There were [dozens] of soldiers around, and one of the soldiers dragged one of the children to the vehicle and the other soldiers followed and started to arrest them… We begged the soldiers to wait until the children’s families could come and talk to their families, but that didn’t help.”

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum
IDF Children Feature photo

OCCUPIED WEST BANK -- On March 10, five Palestinian boys hoped to spend their day foraging for vegetables south of their home in the occupied West Bank. Instead, they spent it detained for hours in Israeli custody. The children -- ages eight to thirteen -- were violently arrested by Israeli forces in southern Hebron while picking akoub, a wild,

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Amnesty International: Facebook Plan To Target Children “Incompatible With Human Rights”

Facebook itself “poses one of the biggest threats when it comes to children’s privacy,” according to the human rights organization.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Instagram Feature photo

SAN FRANSICO -- Facebook has let slip that it is launching an Instagram service for children under 13 years old, who are currently legally barred from using the platform. On Thursday, Instagram’s vice president of product told employees in a leaked communication that this was indeed the plan. Instagram’s boss, Adam Mosseri, confirmed the leak’s

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Yemen: Saudi Airstrike Kills Four Children as UN Removes Kingdom From List of Child Killers

Adrianne Lapar, director of Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict said the decision “sends the message that powerful actors can get away with killing children.”

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem
Yemen Children feature photo

SADAA, YEMEN -- It was not the first time that the mother of Faisel Ahmed al-Jaser heard the small radio perched in the corner of her kitchen report that Saudi aircraft were once again dropping bombs in the area. This time, though, was different. She sensed something was amiss when she heard the aircraft buzzing overhead and would later come to

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Betty McCollum Is Pushing Congress to Stop Subsidizing the Torture of Palestinian Children

“The legislation I am introducing is expressly intended to end U.S. support and funding for Israel’s systematic military detention, interrogation, abuse, torture, and prosecution of Palestinian children.” – Betty McCollum

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Betty McCollum Feature photo

In December 2018, a 17-year-old Palestinian teen, Ayham Sabah, was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a stabbing attack targeting an Israeli soldier in an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Sabah was only 14 years old when the alleged attack took place.  Another alleged attacker, Omar

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