[Pnews] 250 Palestinian Children Currently Imprisoned by Israel

[Prisoner News]

  250 Children Currently Imprisoned by Israel

author Thursday June 26, 2014 02:42author by Chris Carlson
*http://www.imemc.org/article/68232*

VIDEO: Israeli soldier arrests and beats Palestinian child

    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.

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.

Masalha noted that soldiers beat the children during the arrests, which 
is considered a crime under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 
<http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx>.

The children are also taken from their homes in the middle of the night, 
and this is considered to be kidnapping.

Two children have given statements to their lawyers regarding how the 
Israeli army arrested them, the PNN reports:

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.

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.

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 Report: /"800,000 Palestinians 
Imprisoned By Israel Since 1967"/ <http://www.imemc.org/article/67566>

Related link: /540 Palestinians Kidnapped By The Army In Less Than Two 
Weeks /

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