Defence for Children International - DCI-Palestine submitted a report to the EU Sub-Committee on Human Rights. Some key findings of the report include:
-Ill-treatment and torture within the Israeli military court system appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalised.
-27 percent of child detainees are forced to sign confessions written in Hebrew.
-58 percent of child detainees are transferred to prisons inside Israel, in violation of Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
-43 percent of child detainees are not adequately separated from adult detainees.
-55 percent of child detainees complain of inadequate food, water and /or shelter.
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