In a perfect word children are protected by their parents and society. However the Palestinians are imprisoned in a far from perfect world. Nevertheless, Your Majesty, we would like to assure you that Palestinians are human too, and that a Palestinian mother, like any other, seeks to protect, and not to abuse, her children.
Palestinian parents see their children as their only thread of continuity in life.
In a society of occupied people, there is no other social security, no other meaning to life. Twelve years old Mohammed Al Durra was killed in his father's lap on his way home. They stepped into a street where Israeli soldiers were shooting live ammunition at stone-throwing youngsters and were trapped behind a barrel as the soldiers emptied round after round of ammunition into them. There were eight bullets in the father alone. Eighteen months old Sarah was in the back of her parents car outside their home.