Child Prisoners
Twelve-year-old arrested 10 times by Israel in three years
7 months ago
by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours of the Electronic Intifada 19 October 2012 In an unwavering voice, Muslim Odeh recounted how Israeli riot police took him from his bed earlier this week, blindfolded him, subjected him to hours of intense interrogation and held him overnight in a Jerusalem prison compound. Odeh vomited after Israeli police punched him four times in the stomach [...]
DCI-Pal: Children prosecuted in Israeli military courts – update
7 months ago
The following public statement was issued by Defence for Children International – Palestine Section to update on the current situation of Palestinian children held as political prisoners and prosecuted in Israeli military courts: [2 October 2012] – Since September 2009, a number of amendments have been made to Israeli military law that affect the manner in [...]
IMEMC: Israeli forces kidnap 4 – including 2 children – from Qalqilya
8 months ago
by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Kufr Qaddoum village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, broke into several homes and kidnapped four residents, including two children. Local sources reported that at least fifty Israeli soldiers, supported by armored vehicles, invaded the village approximately at 2 [...]
Child prisoners mistreated in Hasharon prison
10 months ago
The Palestinian Information Centre reported ongoing mistreatment of child prisoners in HaSharon prison: The administration of the Israeli Hasharon jail has forced Palestinian minors to stand in the sun heat for three hours at the pretext of searching their rooms. Amjad Siraj, who is representing those minors, told a lawyer for the Palestinian prisoner’s society [...]
DCI: Urgent Appeal for Children in Solitary Confinement
10 months ago
The following urgent appeal comes from Defence for Children International – Palestine: Today, DCI re-released an Urgent Appeal calling for an end to the practice of placing Palestinian children in solitary confinement. DCI first issued the appeal in January after documenting 50 cases of children who reported being held in isolation in Israeli detention facilities since 2008. [...]
DCI-Palestine issues new report: Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted: Children held in military detention (2012)
1 year ago
On 20 March 2012, Defense for Children International-Palestine launched a new report:Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted: Children held in military detention. The report is the culmination of four year’s work by DCI, with the support of the European Union, focusing on verifying reports of ill-treatment and torture of children in the Israeli military detention system. The [...]
United Church of Canada: Free Palestinian Child Prisoners
1 year ago
Call for the release of Palestinian children held as prisoners by Israel and for just treatment of all others.
While 1,027 Palestinian prisoners are being released over the next two months, this number does not yet include any of the 164 prisoners who are children; and the approximately 4,345 who are not scheduled for release are subject to treatment that violates international law.
Stone Cold Justice: Palestinian Child Prisoners
1 year ago
The first clue that a new group of children is approaching is a shuffle of shoes and a clinking of handcuffs and shackles. The door to the courtroom bursts open - four boys, all shackled, stare into the room. Four boys looking bewildered.
