Arlene Kushner On Protecting Children During Evacuation From Mitzpe Avichai

From Arlene Kushner:

January 16, 2012

"The Rights of the Child"

We're still dealing with Mitzpe Avichai.  As my readers are well aware, I have focused on mistreatment of the infants and children forced out of their homes during the evacuation of this neighborhood.  What I have now learned is precisely how much attention has been paid to this issue in relevant forums over a period of time:

As far back as August of 2009, a document had been drawn up by mental health professionals, who took into consideration lessons from previous evacuations of "outposts," regarding the rights of the child in these circumstances.  This document made minimal recommendations, and stated that children must be prepared in advance for an evacuation of their homes, and should not be present when the evacuation and destruction are taking place.

Arlene Kushner On The Evacuation of Mitzpe Avichai and Mossad and Iran,

From Arlene Kushner:

January 15, 2012

"Follow-up on Mitzpe Avichai"

In my last posting I registered moral outrage at the fact that the residents of Mitzpe Avichai, including children and babies, were pushed out of their homes -- a total of 9 temporary structures in this fledging neighborhood in Kiryat Arba -- in the middle of the night, into a freezing rain, so that the homes might be destroyed. 

Today I have additional factual information: