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- Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
- Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Childhood as Political Capital
- 2 Caging: From Lydda, 1948, to Hebron, 2018
- 3 “Our Existence Is Upsetting Them”: Gendered Violence and Unchilding in the Naqab
- 4 “They Made My Parents into Prison Guards”: Childhood, Parenthood, and the Carceral Politics of Home Arrest
- 5 Unbreakable: The Intimacy of Torture and the Children of Gaza
- 6 Children as Political Capital: Unchilding and the Incomplete Death
- References
- Index
2 - Caging: From Lydda, 1948, to Hebron, 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2019
- Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
- Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Childhood as Political Capital
- 2 Caging: From Lydda, 1948, to Hebron, 2018
- 3 “Our Existence Is Upsetting Them”: Gendered Violence and Unchilding in the Naqab
- 4 “They Made My Parents into Prison Guards”: Childhood, Parenthood, and the Carceral Politics of Home Arrest
- 5 Unbreakable: The Intimacy of Torture and the Children of Gaza
- 6 Children as Political Capital: Unchilding and the Incomplete Death
- References
- Index
Summary
There was a big explosion in the vegetable market, in the middle of the city: Someone came and put a basket with explosives under the vegetable carts, and it exploded on Wednesday when the market was packed with people. Body parts were on the walls and everywhere. Our house is about half a mile from the place; we heard the explosion, and my father sent me [to the market] when I was a child – this was in ’48. I had a brother who used to work in the butcher shop [in the market], and I saw the scene, the remains, the blood, and the hole in Isfelt [Street]. Of course, all the people who were around the explosion were blown to pieces.
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- Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding , pp. 28 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019