Freeing childhood from prisons
IPS 02 April 2019
Hamza has memories no 17-year-old should. "I was desperate. I didn't talk to anyone. I didn't want to go outside the house. I was very nervous. I'd be irritated with the simplest matters." (874 Words) - By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
Hamza, who did not want to show his full face, spent five traumatic months in Ofer military prison for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli settlers near his school in the West Bank. . Photo: Jillian Kestler-D'Amours/IPS
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