DCI/PS FACT SHEET:
Violations of Palestinian Children's Rights Stemming from the Israeli Occupation
- Since September 2000, DCI/PS field research has recorded the deaths of over 230 Palestinian children (under the age of 18) as a direct result of the Israeli occupation:  more than 25 thus far in 2002, 98 in 2001, and 105 in 2000. More than 1/3 of children killed in the year 2001 were under the age of 12.

- At least 17 Palestinian children have been killed as a result of

Israel's  policy of extra judicial killings of Palestinian activists.
- The percentage of Palestinian children killed under the age of thirteen
doubled from the year 2000 to the year 2001.
- According to DCI/PS fieldwork, of the 98 children killed directly by
Israeli soldiers or settlers in the year 2001, 56 of those killed were not
participating in a demonstration or any form of confrontation at the time
of their death.
- Of the 42 children killed during clashes, only 26 of them were actually
participating in clashes at the time according to DCI/PS documentation.
The  remaining 16 were passing nearby.
- Of the total 98 children killed in 2001, 39 were killed inside their
houses, on the way to school, or in school.
- DCI/PS estimates that over 7,000 Palestinian children have been injured
since September 2000.

A DCI/PS sample of 3,750 injuries from 2001 indicates that more than 1/5
were to the upper part of the body (head, chest, eye, neck and back).
Twenty-four percent (24%) of children who were injured were shot by live
ammunition. Nearly 40% of children injured were 12 years old or younger
(39.73%).Twenty-seven children lost a body part as a result of their
injury (limbs or internal organs). Of these, nine children lost their eye.
- Doctors report many injuries due to fragmenting bullets fired from M-16
rifles. They are designed to splinter on impact  tearing tissue and
muscles and causing multiple internal injuries. 1 April 2002
PALESTINIAN CHILDREN TARGETED BY ISRAELI MILITARY SIEGE:
DCI/PS CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION
DCI/PS urges the international community to immediately intervene to
protect Palestinian children currently under siege by the Israeli military