This article describes how Syrian families are increasingly taking in abandoned children—often found in public places due to war, poverty, and social stigma—providing them with care and a sense of belonging despite legal and financial challenges.

This photo essay documents the experiences of children in Gaza who have lost one or both parents during the ongoing conflict and are navigating grief, displacement, and profound changes to their daily lives.

​This paper outlines the practical experience of SEYAJ in implementing the "Protection Square" approach, which establishes an integrated framework for child safety by aligning the roles of families, local communities, educational institutions, and regulatory bodies. SEYAJ developed this model as a proactive strategy to strengthen protection mechanisms in high-risk environments.

This study explores the subjective well-being (SWB) of Palestinian-Arab children aged 9–13 in residential care in Israel. It focuses on how these children perceive their well-being in terms of their satisfaction with residential care and life in general. It was found that the participants’ satisfaction with their residential care facility was lower than their overall life satisfaction.

This article presents a meta-analysis of 41 studies examining the prevalence, risk factors, and consequences of emotional abuse and neglect among children in Arab countries, finding that nearly half of children are affected. It highlights key drivers such as parental divorce and low education, as well as serious outcomes like behavioral disorders and suicidal ideation, and calls for culturally tailored prevention and stronger child protection systems.

This Gulf News article reports that Dubai has launched a Foster Families Committee under the Community Development Authority to strengthen and expand the emirate’s alternative care system for children who cannot remain with their biological families.

The article reports that the ongoing US-Israeli war in the Middle East is having a severe and long-lasting impact on children across the region, with hundreds killed and thousands injured and over a million displaced, particularly in Lebanon, Gaza

This article examines how Arab-Israeli children experience participation in decision-making committees within child protection services. It explores the cultural and systemic factors that both enable and hinder their meaningful participation, highlighting the need for more culturally sensitive and child-friendly approaches.

A new assessment by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) finds that months of hostilities, displacement and an estimated 72,000 civilian deaths in Gaza are reshaping family structures and leaving a growing number of children without parental care, leaving communities and children to rely on informal kinship care arrangements.

This article tells the story of Maha al-Rubaie, a 56-year-old woman in Gaza who has become the guardian of her infant great-nephew, Hamza, after his entire immediate family was killed in Israeli strikes. Maha had previously raised Hamza’s father, and now she faces the immense challenge of caring for a child born amid war, surviving with oxygen deprivation, seizures, and limited medical care.