WorldAnalysis: How Israel strips Palestinian children of childhood through ‘unchilding’

Ayed Abu Eqtaish, director of the Seyaj Organisation for Child Protection, discusses “unchilding”, a term coined by criminologist Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian in 2019 and later used by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese to describe Israel’s systematic deprivation of Palestinian children’s right to life. Abu Eqtaish says it also deprives them of childhood itself, leaving them worried each day about reaching school safely and whether relatives will be arrested.