Israel 'systematically mistreats' Palestinian children in custody
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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Some 700 Palestinian children per year are arrested and face "ill-treatment" by Israeli forces, according to a new report by a children's rights group.
In the report, Child Rights International Network said that "during 2014, an average of 197 children were held in military detention every month, 13 per cent of whom are under the age of 16."
"Arrested children are commonly taken into custody by heavily armed soldiers, blindfolded with their wrists tied behind their backs before being transported to an interrogation centre," the CRIN report said.
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According to research conducted by Defense for Children International -- Palestine cited by the report, some 56 percent of children report having experienced "coercive" interrogation techniques during their time in Israeli custody.
I am appalled that Israel, the only democratic farce in the Mid-East, routinely acts like other rogue states in their never ending quest to pursue human rights abuses.
And yet, my fellow DUers there are right wingers, posing as Democratics, who love to pretend that Israeli is an eternal victim...that any documentation of Israeli human rights abuses is suspect in their eyes.
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