Alwaght- Israel brutally tortures most Palestinian children detained at the regime’s notorious detention centers.
According to a Sunday statement by Palestinian Society Prisoners Club, sixty percent of Palestinian children detained at Israeli prisons are subjected to physical and psychological torture.
The NGO said minors were being exposed to “physical and psychological torture through several ways, including detention during late hours of the night and by beatings.”
Minors were also being subjected to “threats and confessions were being extracted from them under duress; they are kept for hours without food or drink and are subjected to interrogation for long periods; they also face direct insults and obscene words thrown at them.”
The statement included three testimonies from three children who were being held at the Ofer Prison in the West Bank.
Mustafa al-Badan, 17, Faisal al-Shaer, 16, and Ahmed al-Shalalda, 15, said in their testimonies that they were abused during detention and interrogation at the hands of Israeli officials.
Israel currently imprisons around 6,500 Palestinians, including 350 children.
In another report November last year, Palestinian Society Prisoners Club said the Israeli regime has arrested no less than 7,000 Palestinian children between the ages of 12 and 18 since the start of the Second Intifada in 2000.
The report further revealed that, 116 of the Palestinian children currently inside Israeli regime’s jails are between 12 and 15 years old, noting this is the highest number since January 2008, the year when the Israeli prison service started to give details about imprisoned children.
