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Urgent Appeal for Children in Solitary Confinement</a></h2>
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following urgent appeal comes from <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org" target="_blank"
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for Children International - Palestine</a>:</p>
<p
style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1em; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Today,
DCI re-released an <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/sites/default/files/ua_1_12_solitary_confinement_july_12_0.pdf"
target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);">Urgent
Appeal</a> 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. In June, DCI documented 3 new cases of
children who report being held in isolation for between 5 and 12 days.
The practice of holding children in solitary confinement has been
widely criticised and according to both the <a
href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/sites/default/files/sr_report_aug_2011_solitary_confinement.pdf"
target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);">UN</a> and
leading <a
href="http://www.childreninmilitarycustody.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Children_in_Military_Custody_Full_Report.pdf"
target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);">UK
lawyers</a>, may amount to torture.</p>
<p
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the
most recent cases, one boy reports being held in solitary
confinement for 5 days as punishment for going on hunger strike, whilst
another boy was placed in isolation for 7 days for hanging a
Palestinian flag in his cell. In the third case, a boy describes being
held for 12 days in a windowless cell in “<a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/22/palestinian-children-detained-jail-israel"
target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);">Cell No
36</a>”, at the Al Jalame interrogation centre near Haifa.</p>
<p
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action<br>
Please send Urgent Appeals recommending the following:<br>
1. The practice of using solitary confinement on children in Israeli
detention facilities must be stopped<br>
immediately;<br>
2. That all relevant Israeli civilian and military laws and regulations
be amended to ensure there is a<br>
legally binding and enforceable prohibition on the use of solitary
confinement on children held in<br>
Israeli custody; and<br>
3. Every detention facility, including Al Jalame and Petah Tikva, must
be opened up to unbiased external<br>
inspection, and inspectors must be given free access to any part of the
facility at anytime.</p>
<p
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to:</p>
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<li
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elected representatives; and</li>
<li
style="margin-left: 1em; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">The
Israeli embassy in your country [<a
href="http://www.worldembassyinformation.com/israel-embassy/index.html"
target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);">list of
Israeli diplomatic missions worldwide</a>].</li>
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