What Palestinian children endure in Israeli detention
Every day, Fidaa Zalbani checks the room of her son, Mohammed, 17, tidying his bed and arranging untouched clothes.
![Fidaa is hoping that her son is released from Israeli prisons. [Ahmed Jalajel/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Fidaa-is-hoping-that-her-son-is-released-from-Israeli-prisons.-Photo-by-Ahmed-Jalajel-1790067490.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Every day, Fidaa Zalbani checks the room of her son, Mohammed, 17, tidying his bed and arranging untouched clothes.
![Fidaa is hoping that her son is released from Israeli prisons. [Ahmed Jalajel/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Fidaa-is-hoping-that-her-son-is-released-from-Israeli-prisons.-Photo-by-Ahmed-Jalajel-1790067490.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Sanju, 10, holds her two-year-old brother at a shelter in Rasuwa, Nepal. Their home and parents were washed away in the August 26, 2026, floods [Jigyasa Mishra/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/IMG_5158-1790055984-1-1790062421.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)



![Rescuers excavate rubble to retrieve bodies from a collapsed building in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/afp_6aadbe453ef6-1789771333.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)



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