More than 10,000 Palestinian minors in the occupied West Bank and - TopicsExpress



          

More than 10,000 Palestinian minors in the occupied West Bank and annexed Jerusalem have been held by the Israeli army for varying periods since 2000. A report by The Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights Israeli forces arrested nearly 3,000 Palestinian children from the beginning of 2010 to mid-2014, the majority of them between the ages of 12 and 15 years old. Around 95 percent of detained children were subject to beatings and torture by Israeli security personnel while in detention, while many were forced to make confessions under duress and undergo unfair trials, Violent practices by Israeli soldiers as well as settlers against Palestinian children is endemic and often abetted by the authorities. mintpressnews/israel-detained-10000-palestinian-children-since-2000/199141/
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 10:57:58 +0000

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