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Turmoil in the Middle East Rise as Israel and Palestine Can’t Find Common Ground

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By Amzad Ali, age 16 and IndyKids Staff “Stop the fire immediately. We’re escalating towards a full scale war,” Tor Wennesland, United Nations Middle East envoy, said in a tweet on Tuesday, May 18. In the past few weeks, tension has reached new levels in the ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel. The recent violence …

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IndyTeens Op-Ed: From Columbus to Netanyahu

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By Raya El Hajjar, age 13 Everyone knows the year 1492. It is the year that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America. From then on, Indigenous land was continuously taken, while the Native peoples were displaced or restricted to reservations. Now the remaining Native American population is living in reservations that are much smaller than their original …

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“My Camera Is a Weapon,” IndyKids Reporter Meets 13-year-old Palestinian Journalist Janna Jihad

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By Lanyie Rhodes, age 13 Janna Tamimi, also known as Janna Jihad, is a 13-year-old Palestinian girl who is a reporter from the small town of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank. She started reporting as a journalist when she was 7 years old, after her friend and uncle were killed by Israeli soldiers. …

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Reporting in Danger

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Janna Jihad Ayyad is a ten-year-old reporter who lives in the West Bank. She records videos on her camera and reports on social media about what is happening in her village.

Camps Breakerz Send Messages Through Dance

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Camps Breakerz performs for kids and adults in Gaza for free. They express their feelings and increase awareness about the occupation.

Childhood Under Attack in Gaza

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On August 15, 2014, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that Israel’s attack of the Gaza strip that began on July 8 killed 1,999 Palestinians, including 1,434 civilians (72 percent), of whom 467 are children (23 percent).