Alwaght- Israeli regime has detained average of 110 Palestinian children every month totaling over 1,000 youngsters during nine months of 2016, Palestinian Committee of Prisoner’s Affairs said on Saturday.
Addressing international bodies to “protect Palestinian children” the committee said “Palestinian children were subjected to torture and abuse inside the Israeli jails”.
Israeli regime is long known for detaining and torturing Palestinian children in the shadow of international silence.
"Some of these minors were held under administrative detention, while others were sentenced to jail or paid large fine in order to be released,” said the committee in a statement.
The so-called administrative detention is a manner of imprisonment without trial or charge that allows the Tel Aviv regime to incarcerate Palestinians for up to six months. The detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods.
Statistics of the committee show a sharp increase compared to child detentions last year, the committee’s director, Issa Qaraqe said.
Protecting Palestinian children “requires a wide and fast action from the international community,” he added.
Tel Aviv is keeping more than 7000 Palestinians in its prisons many of whom are on hunger strike to protest their detention without trial and under the so-called administrative detention policy.
