Days of Palestine – Ramallah
Marking Palestinian Child Day, which coincides with the 5th of April every year, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said in a report Monday that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained more than 9000 children from 2015 until today.
IOF 19,000 were detained since the outbreak of the second Intifada (uprising) in September 2000 including children less than 10 years of age, they added.
It said that 160 children less than 18 years of age are currently serving time in Israeli prisons.
The PPS said testimonies provided by the minors showed that most of them underwent some sort of physical or psychological torture at the hands of their Israeli interrogators using a range of mechanisms and methods in violation of laws, international agreements, and conventions on children’s rights.
The IOF practice various forms of torture against detained children during and after their arrest, in a systematic and widespread manner, which is a grave violation of international law, especially the Convention against Torture and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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