Researcher Bella Kovner published a paper entitled “Children’s Rights, Protection and Access to Justice: The Case of Palestinian Children in East Jerusalem.” The paper, which is part of the book “Context-Informed Perspectives of Child Risk and Protection in Israel,” reviews the issue of children’s access to justice in Israel and around the world. Through this review, the researcher finds that instead of addressing the specific needs and risk factors experienced by East Jerusalemite children, the state treats them as a security threat and the institutional reaction to this behavior is penal. This in turn creates a vicious cycle that enhances the children’s vulnerability to risky delinquent behaviour, which imposes an additional threat to the State of Israel. Within this reality, instead of being characterized and defined by the child protection and international child rights framework, the institutional approach towards these children is overtaken by the security discourse, which deprives them of their basic rights and is defined by threat, control, oppression, and incarceration. To check the paper, click here