"No respite" from Israeli violence against Palestinian children, says human rights group | The Electronic Intifada
An attorney and international advocacy officer for Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCI-Palestine) says that 2014 was “devastating” for Palestinian children.
Whether they were killed, injured or left homeless and traumatized in the Gaza Strip during Israel’s summer attack,
or whether they faced “increasing levels of violence [by Israeli
forces] … at demonstrations [or] as part of military operations
throughout the West Bank” including occupied East Jerusalem — especially
during frequent arrest raids — Palestinian children were regular
targets of Israel’s systematic violence throughout 2014, says Brad Parker of DCI-Palestine.
Parker told The Electronic Intifada in a recent interview that
Palestinian children face routine physical abuse, violence and torture
during arrest raids and detention. “In about twenty percent of cases,
kids are brought and held in solitary confinement
solely for interrogation purposes,” a practice that has been condemned
by international law, which equates it to torture, Parker explained.
Othman, 15, was put on house arrest for eleven months in 2014.
Israeli interrogators were physically violent toward Othman, and
threatened to rape him, his father told DCI-Palestine. (DCI-Palestine)
