Israel mistreats Palestinian children in custody: UNICEF

[BLACKEAGLE]

JERUSALEM: Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law, a UNICEF report said on Wednesday.
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) estimated that 700 Palestinian children aged 12-17, most of them boys, are arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli military, police and security agents every year in the occupied West Bank.
UNICEF said it had identified some “examples of practices that amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention against Torture.”
Israel’s military and foreign ministry declined immediate comment on the findings.
According to the report, ill-treatment of Palestinian minors typically begins with the arrest itself, often carried out in the middle of the night by heavily armed soldiers, and continues all the way through prosecution and sentencing.
“The pattern of ill-treatment includes ... the practice of blindfolding children and tying their hands with plastic ties, physical and verbal abuse during transfer to an interrogation site, including the use of painful restraints,” the report said.
It said minors, most of whom are arrested for throwing stones, suffer physical violence and threats during their interrogation, are coerced into confession and do not have immediate access to a lawyer or family during questioning.
“Treatment inconsistent with child rights continues during court appearances, including shackling of children, denial of bail and imposition of custodial sentences and transfer of children outside occupied Palestinian territory to serve their sentences inside Israel,” the report said.
Such practice “appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized,” it added.
UNICEF based its findings on more than 400 cases documented since 2009 as well as legal papers, reports by governmental and non-governmental groups and interviews with Palestinian minors and with Israeli and Palestinian officials and lawyers.
The report said Israel had made some “positive changes” in recent years in its treatment of Palestinian minors, including new hand-tying procedures meant to prevent pain and injury.
It also noted as an improvement a military order given in 2010 that requires Israeli police to notify parents about the arrest of their children and to inform children that they have the right to consult a lawyer.

Israel mistreats Palestinian children in custody: UNICEF | ArabNews

 

[mohsen]

this report refers to Israel as the only country in the world, which children are convicted in military courts.
children who throw stone toward Israel soldiers are held in prison for months before trial.

In the majority of cases, the principal evidence against the child is the child’s own confession, in most cases extracted under duress during the interrogation. Sometimes the child is implicated in a confession given by another child. In some cases the children unknowingly sign a ‘confession’, written in Hebrew (which most Palestinian children do not understand)

Ultimately, almost all children plead guilty in order to reduce the length of their pre-trial detention. Pleading guilty is the quickest way to be released. In short, the system does not allow children to defend themselves

Report on PDF:
http://www.unicef.org/oPt/UNICEF_oPt_Children_in_Israeli_Military_Detention_Observations_and_Recommendations_-_6_March_2013.pdf

 

[Hasbara Buster]

Israel would never do such a thing, ask Solomon2

 

[Solomon2]

Israel Responds to UNICEF Report, Cites ‘Ongoing Cooperation’

Israel responded Wednesday to a UNICEF report claiming its prison service “systematically” mistreats Palestinian Authority Arab “children.”

By Chana Ya'ar
First Publish: 3/6/2013, 2:50 PM

Israel responded Wednesday to a UNICEF report claiming its prison service “systematically” mistreats Palestinian Authority Arab “children.”

Figures from the end of January showed that of the 233 of the “children” currently held in custody, 202 of them were over the age of 16, according to the AFP news agency.

Car after rock attack
Israel news photo by Ephriam Menashri

The report, entitled, “Children in Israeli Military Detention,” claimed, “Ill treatment of Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalized.”

In response, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said it had provided UNICEF with material used in the report and pledged to work towards implementation of its conclusions.

“Israel will study the conclusions and will work to implement them through ongoing cooperation with UNICEF, whose work we value and respect,” a Foreign Ministry statement said.

The majority of PA Arab teens incarcerated and referred to in the report were apparently arrested for hurling rocks at Israeli motorists – an act intended to kill, and which has sometimes succeeded.

Last December, a 17-year-old rock-throwing Arab nearly killed a baby when the huge rock he hurled at an Israeli car smashed the window a few inches from the infant. Mainstream media ignored the attack.

“We were saved by a miracle,” “Roie,” a resident of Samaria, told Arutz Sheva. "I do not even want to think what would have happened if the rock had hit the baby."

A year earlier, rock-throwing road terrorists succeeded in murdering Kiryat Arba resident Asher Palmer and his toddler son, Yonaton, when they threw a rock at Palmer’s car from a passing vehicle on Highway 60 in Judea. The murder, which to police at first appeared to be a routine traffic accident, later was proved through evidence to be a terrorist attack.

In 2011 a 17-year-old PA youth, Hakim Awad, was arrested for the murder of five members of one family, including a 3-month-old baby girl.


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[Solomon2]

From a previous news story:

...So-called PA Arab “children” detained by Israel are defined as any person under age 18, regardless of size, strength or criminal history, including those who have been actively involved in attacks on Israelis. Of the 233 "children" current incarcerated, 202 are over age 16, AFP noted.

Their attack activity has included hurling rocks, bottles, firebombs (Molotov cocktails) during riots in various locations, or at vehicles passing on the roads of Judea and Samaria. It also includes direct physical attacks, or attempts to attack Israelis by stabbing with knives, clubbing with blunt objects, or even shooting with firearms.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry said it had provided UNICEF with material used in the report and pledged to work towards implementation of its conclusions. “Israel will study the conclusions and will work to implement them through ongoing cooperation with UNICEF, whose work we value and respect,” a Foreign Ministry statement said.

In Gaza, children and adolescents are an important target population for the various terrorist organizations, and summer camps are used as a tool with which to train them as future guerrilla fighters.

In 2010 Hamas ran camps for an estimated 100,000 campers. The Islamic Jihad terrorist organization ran 51 camps, with 10,000 participating boys and girls. In addition to doctrination, the children were given paramilitary training, with slogans extolling jihad and ‘death for the sake of Allah.’

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The question of how to treat kids systematically encouraged to commit deadly violence is a good one. Some issues are tricky, like the demand that the IDF must maintain or re-establish a presence in "occupied Palestinian territory" (something the report doesn't precisely define) where detainees originated even if Israel has yielded said territory to Palestinian control as defined under the Oslo agreements.

Or the fact that UNICEF wants protection for 16-17 year olds even though under international law 16-17 year old soldiers (as these kids are told they are by Hamas, yes) are subject to international war crimes laws. Perhaps the kids should be treated as child soldiers instead and their "teachers" declared war criminals and international arrest warrants issued?

The specific charges of "cruelty" seem mostly to do with the fact that the kids are often arrested the same way adult miscreants are, via a military raid in the middle of the night.

In short, the report has both constructive and not-very-constructive elements in it. As with previous such reports, some of UNICEF's recommendations may well be implemented. Reading the report as a whole, I think it portrays the Israelis not as criminals than as law enforcers where norms recently established in international law or recommended by various U.N. committees are in the process of being translated into workable practice (IDF juvenile rules revised late 2011) in Israel's unique situation and as UNICEF gains experience examining the matter.

link

 

[bala]

Solomon I think you need to look at the bigger picture.

If you was locked up like a dog, not a prisoner, have only the food you are given, you have no school because it is bombed, your parents were shot dead because apparently they were terrorists, you want me to go on?

How would they make you feel eh?

You seem to have a very zionist view of things.

 

[Solomon2]

If you was locked up like a dog, not a prisoner, have only the food you are given, you have no school because it is bombed...you want me to go on? How would they make you feel eh?

That depends on whether I had actually done the things I was arrested for or not. Naturally I'd be justly upset if I was innocent. But if a Palestinian kid guilty as charged, well...

your parents were shot dead because apparently they were terrorists

If they knew their parents were terrorists and had been killed by the IDF then they can't complain that doing so was unjust; if their parents were NOT terrorists and were killed by the IDF they know well enough by the time they are ten or twelve that the IDF doesn't wantonly target innocents and that it must have been some sort of mistake.
Yet the Palestinian Arab kids in question are raised to hate and murder (not just kill, but murder) Jews and to seek out every opportunity to injure Israelis when ordered to do so. They are told that doing so is somehow "holy" or that the world says doing so is their "legal" right or even obligation. Israelis, in short, are supposed to be victims, walking meat to be thrown on the sacrificial fire.

So what do I think a Palestinian feels when being locked up by Israel? Like the robber on the street nabbed by his intended target, embarrassed and angry that the people who are supposed to be his victims actually have the guts to defend themselves, after all.

You seem to have a very zionist view of things.

ZIONIST in big letters, please. It's something to be proud of.

 

[somebozo]

The firing of Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel has been opposed by those living closest to the firing location due to Israeli military responses. On July 23, 2004 a family attempted to physically prevent the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades from setting up a Qassam rocket launcher outside their house. Members of the brigade shot one member of the family, an Arab boy, and wounded 5 others. In October 2010 five children and three women were injured after a Qassam rocket training site exploded near a crowded residential area of Tel As-Sultan in Rafah. Palestinian Center for Human Rights has condemned Hamas for storing explosive material near civilians. In August a similar explosion wounded 58 and destroyed seven houses.

 

[TheJewverine]

So just to clarify, these kids are throwing rocks and behaving violently towards people and their biggest complaint about Israel is alleged verbal abuse and tight hand cuffs? What happened to the tough guys throwing rocks? Oh, I forgot, get the ignorant children to do the dirty work, and then try and exploit them for media attention.

:facepalm:

 

[Pandora]

yay BC Solomon pagal ho gaya hai Unicef ki report deikh kar.

So just to clarify, these kids are throwing rocks and behaving violently towards people and their biggest complaint about Israel is alleged verbal abuse and tight hand cuffs? What happened to the tough guys throwing rocks? Oh, I forgot, get the ignorant children to do the dirty work, and then try and exploit them for media attention.

:facepalm:

You are the best example of "A donkey cant hide in tall grass"

 

[TheJewverine]

You are the best example of "A donkey cant hide in tall grass"

Checkmate!

 

[Pandora]

The firing of Qassam rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel has been opposed by those living closest to the firing location due to Israeli military responses. On July 23, 2004 a family attempted to physically prevent the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades from setting up a Qassam rocket launcher outside their house. Members of the brigade shot one member of the family, an Arab boy, and wounded 5 others. In October 2010 five children and three women were injured after a Qassam rocket training site exploded near a crowded residential area of Tel As-Sultan in Rafah. Palestinian Center for Human Rights has condemned Hamas for storing explosive material near civilians. In August a similar explosion wounded 58 and destroyed seven houses.

First of all report is about child abuse in Israel. Secondly show us some proof of what are saying is true. Anyone can make up stuff but without proof it just a propaganda statement.

Checkmate!

First of all that's a zebra so i guess you haven't been to zoo b4. Secondly his A$$ is shining like a disco ball in those bushes.

 

[TheJewverine]

First of all report is about child abuse in Israel. Secondly show us some proof of what are saying is true. Anyone can make up stuff but without proof it just a propaganda statement.



First of all that's a zebra so i guess you haven't been to zoo b4. Secondly his A$$ is shining like a disco ball in those bushes.

Interesting.

 

[mohsen]

If someone here is trying to say Israel claims are more trust worthy than UNICEF then there is nothing else to say.
and those referring to Palestinian children violent against Israel soldiers, first you have to answer what the f~ck your soldiers were doing in Palestinian lands.

 

[Hasbara Buster]

If someone here is trying to say Israel claims are more trust worthy than UNICEF then there is nothing else to say.
and those referring to Palestinian children violent against Israel soldiers, first you have to answer what the f~ck your soldiers were doing in Palestinian lands.

According to Solomon and other Zionists there is no occupation of Palestinian lands and crimes against humanity. None. They believe they have the God given right to steal and plunder and kill as much as they want. They might not say it openly (although I've come across many lunatics who do) but they absolutely believe this. All Zionists do, you can't be a Zionist and peaceful/humane at the same time, they are mutually exclusive.