Over 1,500 Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces since 2000 – PA minister — RT News

Over 1,500 Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces since 2000 – PA minister — RT News:

More than 1,500 Palestinian children have died at the hands of Israeli forces since 2000, the Palestinian Authority's minister of social affairs, Kamal Sharafi, said Saturday, on Palestinian Children's Day.

In addition to the 1,520 children that have been killed, another 6,000 have been injured and more than 10,000 arrested, Palestinian news agency Ma’an quoted Sharafi as saying. Two-hundred children are still in detention in Israeli prisons.

"Protecting and supporting children should be a national responsibility," Sharafi said, urging the Palestinian Authority to approve a law for the protection of minors.

The international community has criticized Israel for the mistreatment of Palestinian minors. In March 2013, a United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) report concluded that Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military in the West Bank are “systematically” ill-treated, which is a violation of international law.

 

Palestinians
carry the bodies of two boys Suhaib and Mohammed (R) Hejazi during
their funeral in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip November 20,
2012. (Reuters / Mohammed Salem)