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Israeli ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children – a report

By Haitham Sabbah • Jun 27th, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner, Features, Haitham's Choice, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

DCI-Palestine* released a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force – Palestinian Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities.
The release of the report came just days after an article was published in The [...]

350 Palestinian children are suffering inside Israeli prisons

By Iqbal Tamimi • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Children's Corner, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Centre ADDAMEER, declared that the Israeli Zionist forces have arrested almost 6200 Palestinians since the last Intifada started in September of 2000. 350 of those languishing in prison are children who, against international conventions, are still imprisoned in Israeli jails and detention centers.
Those youngsters undergo severe punishment and [...]