Nazi Dramatic Increase Arrest of Palestinian Children
NOVANEWS
Dramatic Increase in Israel’s Arrest of Palestinian Children, Abused, Deprived of Food, Beatings, Denied Legal Council
A Sixty-Two Percent Increase in Arrests
By Middle East Monitor
Some 331 Palestinian minors were arrested by Israel between January and May this year, a 62 per cent increase on figures from 2012 to 2015, NGO Defence for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) revealed yesterday.
According to a report released by the human rights group, Israeli forces regularly abuse Palestinian children, depriving them of food, subjecting them to beatings and preventing them from accessing legal counsel.
Accountability Programme Director at DCIP, Ayed Abu Eqtaish, stated:
“For over a decade, ill-treatment of Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention ...