"The 28 members of the extended Castiro family watched as Israeli forces demolished their home, in the Beit Hanina neighborhood of east Jerusalem, earlier this year. The defiant, angry Imran who yelled, screamed and cried at the scene of the demolition now feels as if his life has been drained out of him.
“I wake up at night panicking and cannot go back to sleep,” says Imran, 12. “I am tired in the morning and cannot go to school.”
"He recalls soldiers just laughing at him as he tried to get past them to go to his house. He remembers three soldiers blocking and mocking him. This memory sits heavily with him....
"Imran feels that he is not good at school anymore, and because of this, he doesn’t like any of the subjects he has to study. His mother, Ghada, can see a big difference in him.
“He used to be smart and obedient,” she says. “Now he refuses to do his homework. He gets angry fast and he doesn’t listen.”...
“The child, on his way to school, is not sure that he will come back and find his house is still there,” says Anan Srour, clinical and educational psychologist at the Palestinian Counseling Center. "They don't know the date they will lose their home, so they are in a constant state of stress. It has implications on all of their daily functions, and parents don't have the psychological energy to meet their children's demands."...
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/06/palestinian-children-trauma-house-demolitions.html
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