Palestinian Child Day falls annually on April 5th. This is an annual event for the Palestinian community to celebrate their children and to call for action on issues and concerns affecting them.
Watch a TV spot made to mark this year's Palestinian Child Day:
- There are 2,150,000 children in the occupied Palestinian territory.
- Every year approximately 700 Palestinian children from the West Bank are prosecuted in Israeli military courts after being arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli army.
- There are about 800,000 children in Gaza; the majority of them have never traveled outside of Gaza.
- The Separation Wall dividing the West Bank from Jerusalem denies thousands of Palestinian children the right to the city.
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See a fact sheet (in English and Arabic) issued by YMCA and Save the Children, which includes a summary of the findings of a baseline study conducted on the effects of detention on children in Palestine.
Watch an interview (in Arabic) with SCS' Protection Program Manager in OPT, Dr. Feletcia Saleh, on Save the Children's activities for Palestinian Child Day.
The Post–trauma rehabilitation of ex-detainee children programme aims at facilitating the re-integration process of child ex-detainees into their community through enhancing their educational and vocational lives through providing educational vocational support.