Stand by Me: Palestinian Children and Military Detention

Stand by Me: Palestinian Children and Military Detention
Saturday, October 24 (1:00 – 2:30 pm)
Online (register)

Since 1967, Palestinian children and their families have been living under a military occupation. From our vantage point as Canadians, we can scarcely begin to understand what that means. Their day-to-day reality includes home and school demolitions, water rationing, the loss of family land, checkpoints and military gates, night raids, detentions and imprisonment.

Please join us for this 90-minute interactive workshop. Using a variety of tools (polls, small and large group discussion, and film clips) we will explore what protections all children have according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. We will then hear about the lived experience of some Palestinian children and how their rights are routinely violated by the actions of the Israeli military. We will finish with an invitation for each of us to take one small action to stand up for Palestinian children by signing the e-petition sponsored by MP Paul Manley.

This is a free event, but registration is required.

The facilitators for the workshop will be Debbie Hubbard and Yara Shoufani. Debbie lives in Kelowna and has visited the occupied Palestinian territory three times. She served as an Eccumenical Accompanier in 2014-2015 in East Jerusalem with the World Council of Churches. She is a member of both CJPME:Okanagan and PalNet Pacific. Yara is the Executive Director of Canadian Friends of Sabeel.

The workshop is hosted by Canadian Friends of Sabeel (CFOS), CJPME: Okanagan, and PalNet Pacific.