46. Al-Khazen, A. M. Palestinian Child Play During the Uprising. Bull. Palest. Ch. Soc. 1995; 1,3: 291-297.

A study was conducted to describe the play of 36 Palestinian children living in two refugee camps, their reported exposure to Intifada experiences, and reports of the children's responses and their mother's responses to such experiences. The study, conducted in April and June 1990, used an exploratory-descriptive design involving interviews of first, second and third graders and their mothers. Eighty percent of the mothers reported that their sons spent average of five hours of the day playing on the streets, while their daughters spent an average of three hours. All of the mothers reported that their sons spent most of their time playing "war games" and "football", while 80% of mothers reported that their daughters played traditional games in addition to "war games". The majority of the children studied reported being exposed to at least one traumatic Intifada-related experience. Sixty-two percent of the children (mostly boys) reported having been severely beaten on the back, head or extremities. Children reported being highly involved in resistance actions with all of them having watched a political march, and 51% of boys and 17% of girls having participated in them. All of the children reported having been scared of being shot, arrested, beaten or of having a family member exposed to such experiences. All mothers reported being extremely worried while their children played on the streets. Several recommendations are provided to ameliorate the negative effects of the children's experiences from the Uprising.