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3 - “Our Existence Is Upsetting Them”: Gendered Violence and Unchilding in the Naqab

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Queen Mary University of London
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My sister was horrified by the bulldozers and large military and police [forces] that came to uproot us again and demolish our homes … When she heard their noise and [that of] the bulldozers, she peed herself, and that embarrassed all of us … They keep trying to uproot us; they hit us, pull our veils off, push us to the ground … they have no dignity, no honor! To push children … steal our homes, fields, and animals … Even the chickens were killed by their bulldozers … Their uprooting, the way they scared my sister … it’s not working … This is our land … Even the graveyards are witnesses that we live here.1

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Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding , pp. 51 - 72
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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