Childhood is constructed, protected, and in Palestine, deliberately destroyed. This episode traces how Palestinian children are stripped of the word “child” before the bullet lands: through media framing, military law, biometric surveillance, and bureaucratic erasure. From cortisol in the hair to frozen trauma on school grounds, Hiba shows how childhood becomes a criminal and what it means to remember, name, and protect it anyway.Take ActionMedia Accountability• DCIP Media Toolkit: Learn how to identify and challenge headlines that erase Palestinian children and obscure Israeli violence• Visualizing Palestine Language Guide: Tools to call out framing that dehumanizes or criminalizes kidsLegal Defense & Documentation• Defense for Children International – Palestine: Defends detained minors and documents Israeli violations in military courts• Al-Haq: Legal analysis and international advocacy for Palestinian children under occupationMemory & Narrative Protection• BADIL Resource Center: Archives children’s stories, displacement histories, and art—what the occupation tries to delete• Share names, photos, and stories while they’re alive. The state wants memory to start at martyrdom. Don’t let it.Sources ReferencedPalestinian Children's Rights Organizations:• Defense for Children International-Palestine• Addameer Prisoner Support• Al-Haq• BADIL Resource CenterMental Health & Research:• Gaza Mental Health Foundation• UNICEF - Children in Armed Conflict• UN OCHASubscribe to the Humanize Gaza Newsletter.See more martyr stories, here."If you remove the word child, suddenly there's no contradiction between protecting children and shooting them." -Hiba

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