Quote (ferdia @ 22 Nov 2023 14:33)
A child is considered any person under 18 years, according to international norms. Between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2022, DCIP collected sworn affidavits from 766 child detainees detained by Israeli forces from the occupied West Bank and prosecuted in Israeli military courts describing their arrest, interrogation, and detention experiences.
3 out of 4 Palestinian child detainees experience physical violence at the hands of Israeli forces.
59% were arrested at night
86% were not informed of the reason for their arrest
97% had their hands bound
89% were blindfolded
75% were subjected to physical violence
58% were subjected to verbal abuse, humiliation, or intimidation during or after their arrest
54% were transferred from the place of their arrest on the floor of a military vehicle
80% were strip searched
42% were denied adequate food and water
31% were denied access to a toilet
66% were not properly informed of their rights
97% were interrogated without a family member present
55% were shown or made to sign a paper in Hebrew, a language most Palestinian children do not understand
36% were threatened or coerced
25% were subjected to stress positions
23% were detained in solitary confinement for interrogation purposes for a period of two or more days
In 1991, Israel ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which stipulates that children should only be deprived of their liberty as a measure of last resort, must not be unlawfully or arbitrarily detained, and must not be subjected to torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Despite various degrees of engagement by U.N. human rights bodies including the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Committee Against Torture, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, as well as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children in Armed Conflict, and numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations, Israeli authorities have persistently failed to implement practical changes to end its unlawful practices towards Palestinian child detainees. Reforms undertaken thus far have been largely cosmetic rather than substantive.
You can detain someone for up to 24 hours but then they need to see a judge.
Even a minor.
When you make criminal offense you will be judge according to criminal law.
There is a difference between war captives and criminals
This post was edited by Many_Names on Nov 22 2023 06:36am