The Palestinian village has acquired a prominent status in the Palestinian short story since 1948, as it is where most of the Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel has resided following the 1948 war. This literature often examined the image of the village child from many aspects, including the child's relationship with village life; the child's relationship with Palestinian folklore such as customs, traditions, games and songs; the influence of the occupation; ideology and identity. The image of the child in the literature includes a collection of semantic, aesthetic and technical features, which are expressed through the presence of the child in the text. The concept of child representations "assumes the transformation of the 'materials' of existence into a cultural – in this case, literary – object that involves concepts of ideology and aesthetics, power relations and conventions" (Wagner 2018, 20). For that reason, the child is an image that the author can use to explore the concept of power in its various manifestations: social, religious and political. This chapter presents examples of child representations in the local Palestinian short story in the works of Muḥammad Naffāꜥ. Naffāꜥ was born in 1939 in Beit Jann, an Arab-Druze village in the Upper Galilee. He is known for his communist positions and has published five short-story collections and three novels through which he earned a respected status, and is considered to be