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Israeli parents protest arrests of Palestinian children in central Tel Aviv
A group of Israeli parents mark International Day for the Rights of the Child by raising awareness of the conditions of Palestinian minors in Israeli custody. For the majority of Israelis, stories of mass arrests of Palestinians in the occupied territories are nothing new. And yet, the Israeli mainstream rarely hears about Palestinian children who are…
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Orly Noy
November 22, 2018
PHOTOS: 14-year-old Palestinian girl released from prison after 44 days
Photos: Ahmad al-Bazz Text: Yael Marom After 44 days in an Israeli prison, 14-year-old Malak al-Khatib has returned to her family. Family members waited for al-Khatib Friday morning at the Jabara checkpoint in Tulkarem. Al-Khatib, a 9th grader from the village Beitin near Ramallah, was arrested on December 31, 2014 near her school. Soldiers who…
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Activestills
February 13, 2015
IDF suspends plan to minimize nighttime arrests of children
Despite concerns raised by the international community, the army suspends a pilot program meant to lessen the number of Palestinian children arrested in night raids. By Gerard Horton A pilot program by the Israeli army in order to lessen the number of Palestinian children arrested in nighttime raids has been suspended, according to Israel’s chief military prosecutor.…
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February 2, 2015
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‘Despite reforms, IDF still mistreating Palestinian children’
Nearly two years after Israel said it would work to improve its treatment of the Palestinian children it detains, there have been a few small positive developments. But ill-treatment of Palestinian minors still appears to be ‘widespread, systematic and institutionalized,’ a report by Military Court Watch says. By Gerard Horton In September 2011, a delegation of nine…
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September 1, 2014
Palestinian kids detail abusive interrogations, arrests
Basic rights that are inalienable for Israeli kids are at best a privilege for Palestinian kids in the OPT. Testimonies of arrested Palestinian children shed light on the Israeli army’s worrisome practices. By Fady Khoury On the back of the 47th anniversary of the Israeli occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), one aspect that is…
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June 8, 2014
Young Palestinian girls detained on suspicion of – eating cherries
Four Palestinian girls, at least one of whom is under the age of criminal culpability, are detained and brought for interrogation — without their parents being present — based on a complaint made by a local settler. Israeli soldiers and police detained four Palestinian girls between the ages of 11 and 15 on suspicion of…
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Haggai Matar
May 27, 2014
WATCH: Where kids are arrested for not having a mailbox
The occupation doesn’t only takes its toll on Palestinian adults; in even more ways, it affects Palestinian children. In occupied East Jerusalem, children as young as six are snatched from their beds or on their way to or from school in order to give testimony or be questioned. Why don’t the police simply send summonses…
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Social TV
January 19, 2014
WATCH: IDF detains 5 to 9-year-old Palestinian children in Qaddum
Hours before the weekly protest against the occupation in the West Bank village of Qaddum last Friday, Israeli soldiers detained four Palestinian children aged five to nine for allegedly rolling burning tires. Under Israeli military law, the age of criminal culpability is 12. The soldiers reportedly threw stun grenades at and handcuffed the small children,…
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Social TV
November 20, 2013
UN special rapporteur on torture to address Nabi Saleh trial
14 year-old Islam Tamimi was arrested on January 23 by a large group of soldiers who stormed his family’s home in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh in the middle of the night. He was taken from his bed at gunpoint, beaten up by the soldiers who arrested him and denied sleep. His arrest,…
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Joseph Dana
May 10, 2011
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