Studies center: Illegal practices against children raging in “Israeli” jails

Source: Palestinian information center, 24-09-2009

The prisoners' center for studies revealed that around 400 Palestinian children held in "Israeli" occupation jails are exposed to illegal practices that require immediate intervention on the part of human rights groups.

The center in a statement on Wednesday said that the "Israeli" prisons authority (IPA) was violating all international norms and doctrines that protect those minors and necessitate dealing with them as children and not as "terrorists".

A freed child told the center that the IPA was violating the detained children's simplest rights. He added that "Israeli" jailors regularly beat those children, threaten them with banning family visits, cram them in crowded cells and isolate and terrorize them other than depriving them of education.
The center said that the children were lacking medical care and were held near to Jewish homicide convicts.