Civil and Human Rights Looking Deeper into the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Israel is portrayed as a democracy that shares American values. Is this true? Do all its citizens enjoy the same civil rights before the law? What about the human rights of those under occupation?
Monday, May 24, 2004
373 Palestinians under 18 were being held: "children are physically and mentally abused"
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Published: May 13, 2004 Author: Palestine Media Center- (PMC)
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'The human rights groups said that most child detainees, once arrested, are interrogated by three separate branches of the Israeli government..'
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Two prominent international rights groups affirmed in reports released on Monday that at least 300 Palestinian teens are now routinely subjected to physical and psychological abuse in the jails of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
The Geneva-based Defense for Children International and Save the Children, headquartered in Sweden, said that as of May 2004, 373 Palestinians under 18 were being held in IOF detention centers and prisons.
At least three of the detainees are under 14, they said.
The treatment of Palestinian child detainees by Israeli occupation authorities amounts to a pattern of violence that has gone unchecked for years, the groups said, according to AP.
�The children are physically and mentally abused, and they are deprived of their family and an education,� said Tov Myhrman, a program adviser based in Jerusalem for Save the Children-Sweden. "...
