Appeals

We need your help to end one of the most obscene forms of state killing to be found anywhere in the world: the execution of child offenders. Executing juveniles violates international human rights law. Children should be protected not put to death. Please support us.

Amnesty International researchers visited Palestinian communities within the Occupied Territories. We found thousands of Palestinian men, women and children are being denied access to the water they need by the Israeli authorities.

They started by digging a hole in the middle of a packed soccer stadium. Then they got a truck and filled it with stones before bringing it back and dumping the rocks on the ground. Then they forced Aisha, a terrified, 13 year old girl into the hole and they buried her up to her neck, ignoring her final desperate pleas for help, “Don’t kill me, don’t kill me.” Then they stoned her to death.