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Stolen Youth is the first book to explore Israel's incarceration of Palestinian children. Based on first-hand information from international human rights groups and NGO workers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it also features interviews with children who have been imprisoned. The result is a disturbing and often shocking account of the abuses that are being carried out by Israel, and that have been widely documented by human rights groups such as Amnesty, but yet have never been addressed by the international community. The book presents a critical analysis of the international legal framework and the UN system, arguing that a major failure of these instuitutions is their appeal to neutrality while ignoring the reality of power. The book attempts to address the inadequacy of these institutions by placing the issue of Palestinian child prisoners within the framework of Israeli strategy and the overall system of control. The book is divided into three main sections: the first chapters introduce the major issues, and propose a framework for understanding Israel's policy towards Palestinian detainees, particularly children. The second section examines the actual experience of children from the moment of arrest until their release from prison based on hundreds of affidavits collected from children released from prison. The final section of the book analyses in detail the reasons underlying Israel's incarceration of children and the impact on Palestinian society. It outlines Israel's system of institutionalized discrimination and state torture, challenges the legitimacy of Israel's 'security' argument, and argues that Israel's treatment of Palestinian detainees forms one pillar of a policy designed to quash resistance to the occupation.""

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This book, dealing with the grim subject of the detention of Palestinian children, is a remarkable testament of how evil can become routinised, and of the impact of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on one of the most vulnerable segments of Palestinian society. -- Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Middle East Institute, Columbia University No other book has concentrated so clearly on the issue of Palestinain children in this context and it provides a chilling insight into childhood as experienced by Palestinians. -- Peace News

This book, dealing with the grim subject of the detention of Palestinian children, is a remarkable testament of how evil can become routinized, and of the impact of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on one of the most vulnerable segments of Palestinian society. -- Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies Middle East Institute, Columbia University

'A crucial informative synopsis of an issue that has been regrettably neglected for a long time and for that reason deserves to be read.' -- Cairo Times 'Meticulously documented and carefully researched, it is crystal clear and truly damning indictment of an abominable practice' -- Znet 'The first book ever totally devoted to the subject of Israel's imprisonment of Palestinians under the age of 18, and it covers the issue meticulously, yet concisely' -- The Jordan Times 'No other book has concentrated so clearly on the issue of Palestinian children in this context and it provides a chilling insight into childhood as experienced by Palestinians' -- Peace News 'A remarkable testament of how evil can become routinised, and of the impact of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on one of the most vulnerable segments of Palestinian society' -- Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Middle East Institute, Columbia University

'A remarkable testament of how evil can become routinised, and of the impact of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on one of the most vulnerable segments of Palestinian society' -- Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Middle East Institute, Columbia University 'No other book has concentrated so clearly on the issue of Palestinian children in this context and it provides a chilling insight into childhood as experienced by Palestinians' -- Peace News 'The first book ever totally devoted to the subject of Israel's imprisonment of Palestinians under the age of 18, and it covers the issue meticulously, yet concisely' -- The Jordan Times 'Meticulously documented and carefully researched, it is crystal clear and truly damning indictment of an abominable practice' -- Znet 'A crucial informative synopsis of an issue that has been regrettably neglected for a long time and for that reason deserves to be read.' -- Cairo Times

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Adah Kay is senior consultant with CVS, a policy & consultancy unit specialising in social welfare, health care & housing. She is Honorary Professor at City University Business School & Assistant Director of Volprof (Centre for not for profit management). Adam Hanieh was Research Co-ordinator for Defence for Children International/Palestine Section in Ramallah on the West Bank (2000-2002) where Catherine Cook has worked as International Advocacy Co-ordinator. She lives in Washington DC.

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