#Harper government silences pain of Gazan children | rabble.ca
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Writing about a previous generation of Gazan children, Dr. James Graff said that between 1987 and 1993 a third had either been beaten or shot by Israeli soldiers. He mentioned a 1992 survey of Gazan’s aged eight to 15 in which 89 per cent had had their homes raided at night and 45 per cent were there subjected beatings. He described those child beatings where,
“Usually two, four or more soldiers are involved, using their rifles or army issued 60 cm plastic or fibreglass truncheons. They usually repeatedly strike their victims with these weapons all ’over the body,’ often including the genitals, and they frequently kick or beat them with their fists as well. Other ’standard’ beatings involve repeatedly smashing the victim’s head against walls or striking the victim on the forehead in order to cause a hairline fracture at the base of the skull.”
This was decades before #Hamas rule and when the Strip’s population barely exceeded 600,000. Thus the child victims of today are themselves descended from the child victims of yesterday, their homes now invaded by missiles at night rather than marauding soldiers.