abstract
| - In May 2004 it was found that 33 percent of Israeli youth have been affected personally by violent attacks, the corresponding rate of post-traumatic stress disorder among Palestinian children was about 70 percent. Since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000 - which marked the beginning of the most recent upsurge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - at least 954 Palestinian and 123 Israeli children under the age of 18 have been killed, according to B'Tselem, an Israeli human rights monitoring group. During the First Intifada, thirteen Palestinian children were killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). On September 13, 1993, the Oslo Accords were signed, marking the end of the first Intifada. Between September 13, 1993 and the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, ten Palestinian children were killed by IDF soldiers, and another two by Israeli civilians. During the same period, five Israeli children were killed by Palestinian citizens during the first Intifada and thirteen prior to the second intifada. According to a MIFTAH report between September 28, 2000 and September 30, 2008 999 Palestinian children and 123 Israeli children were killed. These figures include 32 Palestinian babies stillborn at checkpoints (not included by B'Tselem).
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