Mint Press News – by Al Akhbar
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 Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official said Wednesday, adding that 20 percent of those detained since June of this year are minors.
“Israel does not provide any immunity for children and regularly violates international agreements on children’s rights by humiliating and torturing them and denying them fair trials,” Issa Qaraqe, head of the PLO’s committee on detainees, said in a statement.
The release was issued to mark the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the UN General Assembly.
Qaraqe went on to say that Israeli forces have detained around 3,000 Palestinians – for varying periods – since June of this year, some 30 percent of whom were children.
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, Qaraqe said, adding that at least 300 children are still detained in Israeli jails on various charges.
Violent practices by Israeli soldiers as well as settlers against Palestinian children is endemic and often abetted by the authorities.
On Friday, an 11-year-old Palestinian who was shot in the face with a “sponge bullet” during clashes with Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem was left blind in one eye, even though Israeli protocol explicitly prohibits firing the foam-tipped bullets at the upper body.
During the month of November, Israeli forces detained four Palestinian children, aged 13 to 16, for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli cars, and attempted to detain two Palestinian children, a two-year-old and a nine-year old, on suspicion of throwing stones.
According to a PLO report for the month of October, Einas Shawkat, 5, was run over and killed by an Israeli settler in Sinjil, while four other children under the age of 17 were deliberately hit and injured in similar hit and run attacks.
Other than the hit and runs, at least 12 children under the age of 16 were injured in the space of a month. The majority were injured in clashes with Israeli forces.
The Palestinian Authority Department of Prisoner’s Affairs said in October that “dozens” of Palestinian minors jailed by Israel have been beaten or assaulted during their time in Israeli custody.
Similarly, an earlier report by Defense for Children International (DCI) published in May 2014 revealed that Israel jails 20 percent of Palestinian children it detains in solitary confinement.
DCI said that minors held in solitary confinement spent an average of 10 days in isolation. The longest period of confinement documented in a single case was 29 days in 2012, and 28 days in 2013.
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.
The report also documented dozens of video recorded testimonies of children arrested during the first months of 2014, pointing out that 75 percent of the detained children are subjected to physical torture and 25 percent faced military trials.
The most excruciating violations are seen in the psycho-physical torture methods, including the act of forcing children to sit on the investigation chair chained hand and foot and covering their entire heads with foul-smelling bags, in addition to depriving them of sleep.
In 2013, the UN children’s fund (UNICEF) reported that Israel was the only country in the world where children were “systematically tried” in military courts and gave evidence of practices it said were “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.”
The UNICEF report said in a 22-page report that over the past decade, Israeli forces have arrested, interrogated and prosecuted around 7,000 children between 12 and 17, mostly boys, noting the rate was equivalent to “an average of two children each day.”
Palestinian children as young as five years old have also been detained in the past.
In 2013, Israeli forces in the West Bank detained four Palestinian children aged five to nine years.
Palestinian activist Murad Ashtiye told AFP at the time that “Israeli soldiers arrest the children and tie their hands behind their backs using plastic strips.”
Meanwhile in Gaza, a 51-day Israeli aggression last August left at least 505 children dead, 20 percent of the total civilian death toll.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA said 138 of its students were killed during the assault. The organization’s spokesperson Christopher Gunness said an additional 814 UNRWA students were injured and 560 have become orphans due to the Israeli onslaught.
The worst massacre took place in the Abu Hussein School of the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north killing and injuring dozens even after the agency said that it gave the school’s coordinates to the Israelis more than 17 times so they won’t hit it.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-detained-10000-palestinian-children-since-2000/199141/
Lets get real here, we all know what became of those children!
“Israel does not provide any immunity for children and regularly violates international agreements on children’s rights by humiliating and torturing them and denying them fair trials,” Issa Qaraqe, head of the PLO’s committee on detainees, said in a statement.”
“A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old”
(Sanhedrin 54b).
“When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing”
(Kethuboth 11b).
“All gentile children are animals”
(Yebamoth 98a).
They tell on themselves.
And we subsidize Israel’s egregious actions with our tax dollars because they are our democratic ally in the Middle East?
And Jews allege themselves to be God’s chosen people.
WTF — Talk about bogus myths…………………….
“Palestinian minors jailed by Israel have been beaten or assaulted during their time in Israeli custody.”
“beaten or assaulted”? What kind of “assault” did they fall victim to if they weren’t beaten? My guess is that the ugly kids were beaten, and the cute ones were “assaulted”.
We really need to build a wall around that country to keep the mental illness known as “Judaism” contained, and everyone who has ever been a member of the IDF needs to have their head removed, or better yet, removed after it’s been slowly crushed.
The more I learn about the Jews, the more I can’t stand to hear anymore, and I’ve become fully sympathetic to the many world leaders who have sought some kind of “final solution” in the past. Expel them again. It’s the easiest, and most popular solution to the “Jewish problem”, which problem is that these animals are mentally, or spiritually unfit to live in a civilized human society.
And now I know what an “anti-Semite” is; it’s simply someone who knows Jewish history. It’s difficult, if not impossible to like these people once you know what they’ve done, and you see them doing it again and again as if they had no other way of existing.
I’m not even sure that I’m an atheist anymore, because the Jews are starting to convince me that Satan definitely exists.
“The more I learn about the Jews, the more I can’t stand to hear anymore, and I’ve become fully sympathetic to the many world leaders who have sought some kind of ‘final solution’ in the past. Expel them again.”
The problem with expulsion is that the only Country which will take-in expelled Jews, is the USA. In fact many Jews (including some of our DC politicians) have a dual citizenship with Israel and the USA — so they don’t need to ask permission to come here, and its unlikely that they will have their USA citizenship revoked.
We already have problems with the millions of Latinos coming here, we surely don’t need to have arrogant Israelis coming here as well.
I think it will be best to let the Israelis stay in the Middle East. It’s only a matter of time until the Arab States get totally fed up, create a military coalition and overrun them. Israel’s nukes, their Iron Dome, ISIS, nor the USA will be able to save their smug a$$es (and they might choose to let them perish within their borders of inequity).