Israel’s frequent targets: Palestinian kids

They are accused of throwing stones with the intention to kill. If the youths are convicted, they could remain in prison until their early forties Hopes for an ultimate settlement between Israelis and Palestinians have risen as US-brokered negotiations continue. However, Israel has undertaken a strategy that deepens mistrust among Palestinians. On the one hand, […]

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Testimonies Prove Israel Tortures Palestinian Children

09/12/2013 | Stephen Lendman | Sabbah Report On August 22, B’Tselem headlined “Abuse and torture in interrogations of dozens of Palestinian minors in the Israel Police Etzion Facility.” More on that below. Previous articles discussed torturing, abusing, and otherwise mistreating Palestinian children young as 10. Sometimes younger. In July, Israel arrested and terrorized a five-year old boy. […]

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DFLP: Save the Hares Boys! 5 Children face life in prison with no evidence for no documented crime

DFLP | July 20, 2013 The following content is taken from The Hares Boys campaign website, a critical resource on an important case about the criminalization of Palestinian youth, the devastation of imprisonment, apartheid military courts, and occupation injustice. For additional information, updates and action alerts: http://haresboys.wordpress.com The website also contains an important analysis of […]

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IOF soldiers rounded up 20 Palestinian children in two weeks

[ PIC 17/07/2013 – 01:04 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up 20 Palestinian children over the past couple of weeks, an official Palestinian report said on Wednesday. The report by the children information department in the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah said that the IOF targeting of Palestinian children had escalated as […]

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Israeli court orders imprisonment of 14-year-old Jerusalemite child

[ PIC 20/06/2013 – 09:20 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– An Israeli military court ordered the imprisonment of a Jerusalemite child from Alezariya, to the south east of Jerusalem. Local sources said on Thursday that the 14-year-old child Mohammed Al-Mikahal was also fined 2000 shekels for throwing firebombs at Israeli targets. Meanwhile, Jawad Siyam, the […]

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Israeli occupation forces prevent children from going to school

[ PIC 28/04/2013 – 08:58 PM ] TOBAS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) prevented schoolchildren in Wadi Bazik, Tobas province in the Jordan Valley, from heading to classes on Sunday. Local sources said that IOF soldiers were seen deployed in the area and blocked movement of citizens at the pretext of launching maneuvers. They said […]

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Arrest and abuse of ill 16-year old in Urif

21st April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Urif, Occupied Palestine By Team Nablus An innocent 16-year-old boy was abused and arrested on Tuesday April 16th in Urif, despite his grandfather and uncle rushing to show documents that he is seeking medical attention for a possible cancer diagnosis. He was wrongfully accused of stone-throwing as he […]

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Adalah: Israel denies Palestinian kids in its jails access to education

[ PIC 16/03/2013 – 11:54 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The legal center of Arab minority rights Adalah demanded in a joint letter with defense for children international (DCI) the Israeli prison authority to grant Palestinian children and minors access to schooling in its jails. The center pointed out that there are about 400 prisoners aged […]

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Israel deprives 20,000 Jerusalemite children from reuniting with their families

[ PIC 04/02/2013 – 09:08 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authorities (IIOA) have deprived more than 20,000 Jerusalemite children from the right of reuniting with their families in occupied Jerusalem. The secretary general of the Islamic Christian commission for supporting Jerusalem and the holy shrines, Dr. Hanna Issa, pointed to a sharp […]

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B’Tselem: Israel persists in violating the rights of young detainees

[ PIC 06/01/2013 – 11:28 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli army and police still persist in violating the rights of the Palestinian children enshrined in international laws and conventions, human rights group B’Tselem said. B’Tselem affirmed on its website that Israel violates the international law through arbitrarily kidnapping Palestinian children and minors from their […]

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Israeli Soldiers Kidnapped 900 Children In 2012

Saturday December 22, 2012 23:58 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees reported that this year witnessed a sharp increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian children, and said that Israeli soldiers kidnapped this year 900 Palestinian children comparing to 700 kidnapped last year. File – Maan Images The Ministry said […]

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A Child in the Hospital under Detention!

Al Qassam Website 06-10-2012,09:00 Al Qassam website (Agencies) – Occupation forces arrested on Friday Hassan Afifi 16.5 years while he was with his father in front of his house in Jerusalem, in the same time of storming Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli forces.According to Hassan’s mother, special forces raided near their home suddenly without any problems […]

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Human Rights, Pregnancy and Israeli Checkpoints

  Jurist | July 11, 2012 JURIST Guest Columnist Abeer Hashayka, an LL.M. Candidate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2012, examines the treatment of Palestinian families at Israeli checkpoints and calls for safe, reliable access to hospitals and clinics during pregnancy… For most families, the birth of a child is […]

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Israeli military court sentences 14 yr old Palestinian child to 8 years

[ 24/06/2012 – 01:22 PM ] QALQILIA, (PIC)– The Israeli military court in Salem has sentenced a Palestinian child from Azzun village, Qalqilia province, to eight years behind bars. Quds Press quoted Hassan Shubaita, in charge of recording Israeli violations in Azzun, as saying that the “convicted” child Ihab Hani Mishaal is only 14 years […]

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“Israel Prison Service” reduces meals to detained minors

[ PIC 27/05/2012 – 06:25 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian children detained in Israeli occupation jails have said that the Israeli prison authority (IPS) had reduced meals offered to them daily. They charged the IPS with “starving them”, adding that the IPS serves them only two meals daily. The prisoners said that the administration of […]

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