Israel has detained
about 10,000 Palestinian children since 2000 and they were subjected to
humiliation, torture and solitary confinement, according to Palestinian
Liberation Organisation (PLO).
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| About 10,000 Palestinian children have reportedly been detained and subjected to torture by the Israeli army.Reuters File |
A senior PLO official responsible for securing the release of children
and other detained youths told Press TV that some 10,000 children from the West Bank and
East al-Quds (Jerusalem) have been detained by Israeli armed forces over
the years.
Issa Qaraqe, head of
the PLO's committee on detainees, was speaking on the occasion of the 25th
anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the
UN General Assembly.
He stated that the
children's rights are violated "regularly," and they are often
subjected to humiliation and torture by the Israeli army.
"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," he said.
Qaraqe noted
that 95% of children, many of them as young as seven or eight, have been
subjected to torture. Currently, some 300 children are said to languish at
detention camps in Israel.
Earlier in May, a report released by an international non-governmental
organisation, Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCI-P), had found
that most children detained by Israeli forces were taken in for stone throwing,
a charge that can lead to a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
The monitoring agency
that focuses on the treatment of children in the areas of conflict, found that
every year about 500 to 700 minors are taken prisoners by Israel.
It also reported that
the Israeli military has used solitary confinement as a form of interrogation
and intimidation in nearly 22% of recorded cases. The children put in solitary
confinement have been kept locked in for 10 days on an average, with the
longest period being 29 days, the report stated.
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