Palestinian Child Terrorists: Children Who Kill and Their Adult Enablers

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In violation of those legal obligations there have been at least 36 separate terrorist attacks by Palestinian children. The preferred method of murder and attempted murder by Palestinian child terrorists are stabbings or knifings, the modus operandi in 34 of the 36 attacks. The breakdown of the known ages of Palestinian child terrorists is as follows: age 17 -11; age 16--14; age 15--7; age 14--6; age 13--3; age 12--2; age 11--1; age of minor unspecified: 17. The breakdown of the known gender of Palestinian child terrorists is as follows: male--14; female 11; gender unspecified--17. Legal obligations voluntarily assumed by the Palestinian Authority concerning the involvement of children in armed conflict include the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, which states in part:

• Article 1: States Parties shall take all feasible measures to ensure that members of their armed forces who have not attained the age of 18 years do not take a direct part in hostilities.
• Article 4: 1. Armed groups that are distinct from the armed forces of a State should not, under any circumstances, recruit or use in hostilities persons under the age of 18 years. 2. States Parties shall take all feasible measures to prevent such recruitment and use, including the adoption of legal measures necessary to prohibit and criminalize such practices.

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This treaty was acceded to by the "State of Palestine" on April 7, 2014. But after Palestinian child terrorists had murdered two and injured nine in sixteen attacks in the fall of 2015, Palestinian UN representative Riyad Mansour made this declaration in the public hall of UN Headquarters on November 23, 2015: "We are so proud that in this popular uprising that has started almost two months ago, that the backbone of this uprising are the youth of Palestine." Since that time, Palestinian child terrorists have attacked Israelis at least another 20 times. Here is a list of known acts of terrorism perpetrated by Palestinian children: 14

PERPETRATOR AGE	PERPETRATOR GENDER(where identified)	DATE	METHOD OF ATTACK	ISRAELISINJURED/KILLED
17	male	30-May-16	stabbing	one injured
16 (and 23)	male	23-May-16	attempted stabbing
16		19-May-16	attempted stabbing
underage: 2 persons		11-May-16	stabbing	two injured
12, 12		14-Apr-16	attempted stabbing
15	female	25-Mar-16	attempted stabbing
female	3-Mar-16	stabbing	one injured
17, 17		2-Mar-16	stabbing (knife and a wooden club)	one injured
17	female	21-Feb-16	attempted stabbing
14	male	21-Feb-16	attempted stabbing
15, 15	male	14-Feb-16	throwing rocks (knife and gun)
17	female	13-Feb-16	stabbing	two injured
14, 14	male	18-Feb-16	stabbing	one killed, one injured
13, 13	female	4-Feb-16	stabbing	one injured
15		30-Jan-16	stabbing	one injured
17 (and 23)		25-Jan-16	stabbing (also had pipe bombs and explosives)	one killed, one injured
15		18-Jan-16	stabbing	one injured
16	male	17-Jan-16	stabbing	one killed
17 (and 23)		27-Dec-15	stabbing	two injured
16		1-Dec-15	stabbing	one injured
14, 16	female	23-Nov-15	stabbing	two injured
16	female	22-Nov-15	attempted stabbing
11, 14	male	10-Nov-15	stabbing	one injured
16	male	10-Nov-15	attempted stabbing
17	male	31-Oct-15	attempted stabbing
16, 17		27-Oct-15	attempted stabbing
17	female	25-Oct-15	attempted stabbing
16	male	24-Oct-15	attempted stabbing
15	female	21-Oct-15	attempted stabbing
16	male	17-Oct-15	attempted stabbing
17	female	17-Oct-15	stabbing	one injured
16	female	12-Oct-15	stabbing	one injured
13, 15	male	12-Oct-15	stabbing	two injured
16		10-Oct-15	stabbing	two injured
16	male	23-Nov-15	stabbing	one killed
16-19 (4 persons)	male	13-Sep-15	rocks	one killed

Obviously, information on these incidents is readily accessible. And the Palestinian UN Ambassador publicly supported child terrorism at the UN itself. Moreover, videos, photographs, television programs, and social media outlets--from Palestinian and Israeli sources--provide a multitude of evidence both of Palestinian children engaged in armed conflict and Palestinian adults (from the political sphere to the education system to the family unit) promoting such behavior. Shockingly, however, the UN Secretary-General's most recent annual report on Children and Armed Conflict, released in May 2016, contains the following statement specifically about Palestinian children: "Limited information is available about the recruitment or use of children." Since the Secretary-General's claim is manifestly untrue, the United Nations is not merely engaged in a feeble cover-up. The UN is now an active enabler of the violation of the rights of Israelis and Palestinians: the basic rights to life and security of the person of the Israeli victims of Palestinian children engaged in terrorism, and the rights of Palestinian children not to be recruited or engaged in terrorism in the first place. The Secretary-General's report is due to be taken up by the Security Council on Tuesday, August 2, 2016. See The Washington Free Beacon's article on this report.