“A
Palestinian rights group says 'up to 95,000 children' have been
detained by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since 1967. The
Military Court Watch (MCW) released its report on Wednesday.
'Ill-treatment is still widespread, systematic and institutionalized'
in Israeli jails, said the MCW’s report, adding that Israeli forces
use 'aggressive behavior, threats and violence' over the course of
the investigation, 'including threats to beat, rape, hold in solitary
confinement, electrocute or shoot the minor.'”
“The
MCW has submitted the report to the United Nations Special Rapporteur
on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment, to investigate 200 cases of detained minors since 2013.
The report also added that a 'significant number of minors' had been
taken into custody when 'terrifying military raids' by Israeli forces
were carried out on their homes during the night.”
“Israeli
forces routinely abduct Palestinians in the West Bank and put them
behind bars based on the so-called administrative detention policy,
which is imprisonment without trial or charge that allows the regime
to imprison Palestinians for up to six months. The detention order
can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.”
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