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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Defence for Children report: 256 Palestinian children in Israeli detention

Defence for Children International [PDF] - In October, DCI-Palestine collected information relating to the arrest of 17 children from the Silwan neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, although lawyers and fieldworkers for DCI-Palestine estimate that the overall number of children arrested in the Silwan neighbourhood in October is considerably higher.

According to the UN, violence in Silwan has escalated in recent weeks in the context of increasing friction between Palestinian residents on the one side, and Israeli settlers, their armed private security guards (hired by the Israeli Ministry of Housing) and the Israeli police on the other. The Municipality’s plan to demolish a section of the neighbourhood (Al Bustan) and displace its Palestinian residents in order to build a recreation park (officially announced in March 2010) has also contributed to rising tensions.

... Total number of Palestinian children in Israeli detention at the end of ... Oct. 2010: 256. Read more [PDF]
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