Israel mistreats Palestinian children in custody

Israel mistreats Palestinian children in custody



Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law,

The United Nations Children Fund 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".