Palestinian teenager Janna is being targeted with death threats because she bravely exposes human rights abuses by the Israeli military. Take action now demanding young Palestinians like Janna are protected from harm. 

Janna Jihad just wants a normal childhood. “Like any other child… I want to be able to play soccer with my friends without having tear gas canisters rain on us,” she says. But 15-year-old Janna lives in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Life under systematic discrimination is anything but normal. 

When Janna was seven, the Israeli military killed her uncle. This began Janna’s journey of documenting the Israeli army’s oppressive and often deadly treatment of Palestinians. 

Janna used her mother’s phone to record and expose to the world the racist brutality her community experiences at the hands of Israeli forces. At 13, Janna was recognised as one of the youngest journalists in the world. 

Palestinian children are forced to live through the trauma of night raids, their homes and schools being demolished, and their communities crushed. Those who dare to stand up for their rights - young people like Janna - often suffer the most. 

Israel has signed up to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, yet has failed to extend those protections to Palestinian children in the West Bank. Many have been killed and injured by Israeli forces. By contrast, Israeli children are protected – even those living in illegal settlements near Janna. 

Today, Janna’s principled journalism has marked her out for harassment and death threats, but she won’t give up. 

“I want to know what freedom means in my homeland, what justice and peace and equality means without facing systematic racism,” Janna says. Let’s help her get there.

Add your name to the petition calling on the Israeli authorities to protect Janna from discrimination and violence.