By Odile Hugonot Haber, Middle East Committee

The No Way to Treat a Child campaign aims to expose the practice and impacts of Israeli military detention on Palestinian children to the US public and elected officials in order to hold Israel accountable to international laws and to build support for ending the military occupation. 

Israel is the only country in the world that automatically prosecutes children in military courts that lack basic fundamental fair trial guaranties. Each year 500 to 700 Palestinian children living in the occupied West Bank under prolonged military occupation are arrested by the Israeli forces and prosecuted in a Israeli military detention system that is notorious the systematic and wide spread ill treatment of the Palestinian children. 

We urge branches to protest the treatment of Palestinian children and get more information on this campaign.

Hamas Guide ​

The Middle East Committee has sent the Hamas guide for study to all branches of WILPF. You can find the guide online: or you can order it from the Boston office from Ariane Blondin. ablondin@wilpfus.org or 617-266-0999

On page 19 of the online guide you can see a WILPF Action Plan.  We urge you to report where you are with this study and whether you have already reached your elected officials and other organizations.

We are working on enlarging this campaign. Please let us know of your results.

Reach out to the Middle East Issue Committee representatives for this campaign:

Barbara Taft: Beejayssite@yahoo.com
Libby Frank: LMFrank2@comcast.net
West Coast: Ellen Rosser:ellen.rosser@gmail.com

PHOTO: Israeli soldiers and Palestinian child. Photo: ISM, palsolidarity.org,Creative Commons license