Israeli forces detained over 1,000 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem over the course of this year, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said Tuesday.
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Some 200 of the 1,266 children detained currently remain in Israeli detention facilities, Farawna asserted.

"The targeting of children by Israel, especially in occupied Jerusalem, is rising significantly," Farawna said, stressing that Israeli forces had detained 87 percent more children in 2011 than they had three years earlier.

"The children testified that they had been subjected to various forms of torture and deprived of their basic rights," Farawna said.