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      <h1 class="article-title">250 Children Currently Imprisoned by
        Israel</h1>
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              alt="author"> Thursday June 26, 2014 02:42</span><span
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              alt="author"> by Chris Carlson<br>
            <b><small><small><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/68232">http://www.imemc.org/article/68232</a></small></small></b><br>
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      <p class="article-subtitle">VIDEO: Israeli soldier arrests and
        beats Palestinian child</p>
      <blockquote class="article-intro">Lawyer for the Ministry of
        Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Hiba Masalha, has declared
        that the number of Palestinian children in Israeli jails has
        increased to 250. <br>
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      <p class="article">The reason behind the increase is due to the
        recent arrest campaign carried in the West Bank by the Israeli
        army, under the pretext of searching for three missing Israeli
        settlers, according to the PNN.<br>
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        Masalha noted that soldiers beat the children during the
        arrests, which is considered a crime under the <a
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          href="http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx"
          target="_blank">UN Convention on the Rights of the Child</a>.
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        The children are also taken from their homes in the middle of
        the night, and this is considered to be kidnapping.<br>
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      Two children have given statements to their lawyers regarding how
      the Israeli army arrested them, the PNN reports: <br>
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      Talal Khalid Safi, age 16, who was arrested last month, said to
      his lawyer that the Israeli soldiers hit him in his stomach, in
      the back and in his face, causing bleeding in his nose and mouth
      as he was being detained in the Hawara interrogation center. <br>
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      Islam Mahmud Hymenia, 17, who was arrested last December, told his
      lawyer that Israeli soldiers took him from his home and violently
      beat him with their weapons in the jeep, until he finally lost
      consciousness.<br>
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      More than 800,000 Palestinians, including children, have been
      kidnapped and imprisoned by Israel since the 1967 occupation of
      Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, while at least 5,000
      Palestinians are currently held by Israel. See IMEMC Special
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        href="http://www.imemc.org/article/67566" target="_blank"><i>“800,000
          Palestinians Imprisoned By Israel Since 1967”</i></a><br>
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      Related link: <i>540 Palestinians Kidnapped By The Army In Less
        Than Two Weeks </i>
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      <div class="article-related-link-relatedlink">Related Link(s): <a
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          title="http://www.imemc.org/article/68223">http://www.imemc.org/article/68223</a></div>
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