Nazi prisons rob Palestinians of their childhood
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Obaida Akram Jawabra is 15 and has already been arrested twice by Israel.The teenager, from Arroub refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank, is among hundreds of Palestinian children to be arrested by Israel each year.
“The first time was really difficult. I was on my way to the store when they arrested me,” Obaida says in a new film named after him.
“The soldiers would beat me in places that would leave no marks so there wouldn’t be evidence on my body that I could use to testify against them,” Obaida says.
The film was produced by Matthew Cassel for Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP). Cassel is a former editor of The Electronic Intifada.
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