Dangerous Child's Play
Barbara Lubin has been visiting the Palestinian territories for more than a decade, so she's used to the military checkpoints that dot the roads leading in and out of refugee camps.
But this checkpoint outside Deheisheh refugee camp seemed more ominous than any Lubin had before experienced. That's because the soldier who ordered her car to stop was not a member of the Israeli occupation force, but a laughing Palestinian child.
Fear and Rage Infect Children's Lives
conflict is building a legacy of childhood trauma that cuts deeper than
the wounds left by young suicide bombers.
Relief workers, psychologists and parents themselves are seeing emotional injuries festering in the children who are growing up surrounded by the horrors of this decades old battle.
In Their Own Words
From 1900 to 2002, a timeline of significant events in Israel and Palestine's history.
Statistics on deaths and injuries in Israel and Palestine.