UA - 1/10 : URGENT APPEAL : DCI-Palestine
| Incident | Night time raid, arrest, ill-treatment of at least 17 children |
| Location | Al Jalazun Refugee Camp (Ramallah), West Bank |
| Date of incident | 11 February 2010 |
| Accusations | Throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers |
| Place of detention | Ofer Prison, West Bank |
Summary of incident
On 11 February 2010, at least 17 children were arrested from the Al Jalazun Refugee Camp in the middle of the night by Israeli soldiers. The children and their families report the use of excessive force during the arrests, and ill-treatment and coercion during subsequent interrogations. The children were interrogated in the absence of a lawyer and family member, and the interrogations were not video recorded. The children are accused of throwing stones, and in some cases, Molotov cocktails at Israeli soldiers in 2009 and 2010. The children are being prosecuted in military courts.
Background information
At around 2:00am, on Thursday, 11 February 2010, Israeli soldiers entered Al Jalazun Refugee Camp near Ramallah, in the West Bank and went from house to house and started rounding up, beating and harassing residents of the Camp...
........These cases are just some examples of what appears to be the systematic and institutionalised ill-treatment of approximately 700 Palestinian children by Israeli authorities each year in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The situation has not improved since the UN Committee Against Torture published its Concluding Observations regarding torture and ill-treatment in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in May 2009.
........There are currently 318 Palestinian children being held in Israeli detention facilities.... Full story
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