Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children

by Catherine Cook, Adam Hanieh, Adah Kay

Stolen Youth is the first book to explore Israel's incarceration of Palestinian children. Based on first-hand information from international human rights groups and NGO workers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it also features interviews with children who have been imprisoned. The result is a disturbing and often shocking account of the abuses that are being carried out by Israel.

The book presents a critical analysis of the international legal framework and the UN system, arguing that a major failure of these instuitutions is their appeal to neutrality while ignoring the reality of power. The book attempts to address the inadequacy of these institutions by placing the issue of Palestinian child prisoners within the framework of Israeli strategy and the overall system of control.

Stolen Youth outlines Israel's system of institutionalized discrimination and state torture, challenges the legitimacy of Israel's 'security' argument, and argues that Israel's treatment of Palestinian detainees forms one pillar of a policy designed to quash resistance to the occupation.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

216 pages, Hardcover

First published January 20, 2004

Reviews

[emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Despite it being written 20 years ago now, this book is still as relevant as ever and offers a deeper understanding of the nature of the Israeli occupation from a child detention perspective.

[Foxglove]

A really tough book to read, made me cry in the library.