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<h1><font size=4><b>1,100 Palestinian Children Detained During
2010</b></font></h1>
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</b></h1><font size=3> Thursday December 30, 2010
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by Ane Irazabal - IMEMC & Agencies <br>
<a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/60312" eudora="autourl">
http://www.imemc.org/article/60312<br><br>
</a></font>The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Detainees' Affairs
reported, on Wednesday, that Israeli forces arrested 1,100 Palestinian
children in 2010, most of them in East Jerusalem and Hebron. <br><br>
In a report, PA Detainees' Affairs Minister Issa Qaraqe claimed that
these arrests are reflecting the systematic attacks that Palestinian
youth suffer in the Occupied Territories on the daily basis. <br><br>
He also stressed that during 2010 the higher number of detentions were
made in the occupied East Jerusalem, about 500, and Hebron, stressing
that children were often put under house arrest. <br><br>
In addition, the report also denounced other practices that the
Palestinian children suffer from the Israeli army, especially, its use as
human shields. <br><br>
According to Defence of Children International - Palestine, since April
2004, 16 Palestinian children suffered from this practice, although it is
considered illegal by both international and Israeli law. <br><br>
Recently, two soldiers from the Givati Brigade became the first soldiers
to be charged and convicted of using a child as a human shield. The two
soldiers were demoted from the rank of staff sergeant to sergeant and
each given a three-month suspended prison sentence. <br><br>
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