We Must Kill Her Very Young: On Childhood and Genocide in Palestine by Mira Mattar

PLEASE TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW AND SEND YOUR LETTER TO THE UN OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISER ON THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTOR.

  1. Palestinian children are constructed as terrorist Others who can—with legal “legitimacy”—be stolen from their lives and imprisoned; who can be shot dead in the street without consequence (at a rate of one child every two days in the West Bank since 7 October 2023); who can be slaughtered en masse; abused; disappeared. The mass murder of children in Gaza is the crescendo of over a century of Zionist violence against Palestinian children. It must be understood as being part of a continuum of organised violence across Palestine in its entirety, contra Zionist cartographies and historiographies.

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