Imprisoning Palestinian Children
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Monday April 12, 2010 15:43
by pat c
Stephen Lendman writes about the ongoing Zionist campaign against Palestinian Youth. Every year, approx 700 West Bank children, are arrested, detained, interrogated, and prosecuted in Israeli military "courts". About 6,500 since 2000. Full text at link.
In June 2009, Defence for Children International (DCI)/Palestine Section published a report titled, "Palestine Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities."
DCI/Palestine "is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children," according to international law principles.
Since the 1967 occupation, an estimated 700,000 Palestinian men, women, and children passed through Israel's judicial system, over 150,000 tried in military courts from 1990 - 2006, the remainder handled through plea bargains for lighter sentences. On average, over 9,000 Palestinians a year are affected, including 700 children treated the same as adults.
For nearly 43 years, Israeli military justice operated "almost completely devoid of international scrutiny," giving authorities license to violate human rights and humanitarian law with impunity. As a result, due process and judicial fairness don't apply under a system denying them.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Don't forget the Palestinian Prisoners Day demo this Saturday 17th April at 2pm outside the Israeli Embassy (122 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4).
More info: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/96236
Yes, the Zionist Aggression Forces continue to use children as human shields. Full text at link.
In the old city of Nablus, while searching her house, Dua’a (16) was ordered by Israeli troops to open closets and lift beds, while the soldiers remained metres away: “They moved three metres backward towards the door while aiming their weapons at me… They ordered me to search the closets and other items in the room.”
Sabri (14) was forced to walk in front of Israeli soldiers while stones were being hurled at them, during protests on the Palestinian Prisoner’s Day: “They were hiding behind me so I could cover them from the stones. They were shouting and saying in Hebrew ‘Throw! Throw!’ to the young men who were throwing stones.”
According to an article published by Maan News Agency, the Israeli army said it would investigate the allegations.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-human...68535
Anonymous self-described Israeli human rights activists have set up an Internet site detailing alleged war crimes committed by senior government officials and Israel Defense Forces officers. No known human rights organization is behind the site, whose founders refuse to give their names.
http://www.wanted.org.il/ -
Web site explains how to inform Hague of when 'suspects' are outside Israel, hence vulnerable to arrest.
Suspects listed are:
* Defense Minister Ehud Barak,
* Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,
* Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni,
* Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai,
* Public Security Minister Avi Dichter,
* National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer,
* IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and his two predecessors,
* Dan Halutz and
* Moshe Ya’alon,
* Former air force commander Eliezer Shkedy and others.
Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - Tzipi Livni - Ex-Mossad Agent and Ex-F.M. of the Criminal and Racist Entity kkknown as 'Israel'
Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - Ehud Olmert - a convicted financial criminal and Ex-P.M. of the Criminal and Racist Entity kkknown as 'Israel'
Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi - a.k.a.: 'The Buthcher of Gaza' and Cheif of Staff of the Criminally Murderous and Racist Gang kkknown as 'IDF'
Wanted!! FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY - Ehud Barak - Ex-P.M. of the Criminal and Racist Entity kkknown as 'Israel'
Its not just the Zionist Aggression Forces that murder Palestinian children. There are also the fascist Zionist Colonosts who massacre Palestinian children with impunity.
Slain Ramallah Youth; Shot By A Settler, Left To Die
Palestinian medical sources reported that Aysar al-Zaben, 16, who was killed on Friday, was shot by Israeli settlers in Wad Al Haramiyya area near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, apparently bled to death as a bullet struck him in the heart. Al Zaben, from Al Ma'sara Al Sharqiyya village, was shot and by a Jewish settler and was left to die.
Palestinian medics who were informed of the shooting by local residents searched the area and located his body three hours after he was wounded. After the body of al-Zaben was located and autopsy revealed he was shot by one live round.
The Israeli army only stated that "there was shooting in the area after stones were hurled at a settlers’ vehicle" on Friday evening at settler road number 60.
Meanwhile, Palestinian eyewitnesses confirmed that a settler stepped out of his vehicle carrying an assault rifle and chased several children while firing at them.
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