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Childhood Returns

Childhood Returns
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Sara Ibrahim

Around 400 Palestinian children are held victims of all types of aggression and torture in "Israeli" jails. Hundreds of children were killed and injured during "Israeli" cowardly air attacks.

Children's dreams are turning into nightmares. Their childhood is being erased in a brutal way. Several human rights associations are being established to give a hand of help, one of them is TAKAFUL.

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TAKAFUL is a non-profit community organization working for children; it was established in 2004 with the purpose of improving and providing a quality life for children according to law, religion and international standards.

TAKAFUL held its second conference at Bristol Hotel in Beirut, under the title of "Together towards a safe childhood".

The conference was attended by politicians, humanitarian activists and charity organizations from different countries around the world.

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The conference took place to discuss the importance of the increasing non-humanitarian violations against children in general and the Arab and Palestinian children in particular.
It aims to launch a committee to monitor, document and follow up to the violations of the Palestinian child rights in the Occupied Palestinian territory, alleviate their sufferings and deprivation, and improve their conditions.

An opening session was held and the following topics were discussed, the repercussions of the embargo on the health status of the children in Gaza, the situation of the child prisoners in "Israeli" jails and the social problems that are being faced by the Palestinian children.

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The assembly held a press conference at the end, of where its chairman Abdul Razak Al Kerhani pointed out to the recommendations that came out of the conference.

Al Kerhani said that the participants expressed their deep concern about the sufferings of the children in general and the children under occupation in particular.

He called on the international community to provide protections for the application of convention on the Rights of Children and its role in punishing the occupying power.
He added that the conference also calls on the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Conference to take serious steps to contribute to the consecration of the belonging of children to the Arab and Islamic identity.

The Conference stopped at the phenomenon of prisoners in "Israeli" jails, calling on the human rights organizations to file lawsuits against the leaders of the occupiers to arrest and bring them to international justice.

At the end of the conference Issam Barghout, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Takaful, said that this conference is a cry of a grieving childhood, hoping that they'd find an echo around the world.

"We hope this conference will establish a new stage in serving the children and protecting their childhood", he ended.

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