Arrest and Torture of innocent children

saleh on November 24th, 2005

Many Palestinian’s I speak to tells me stories of systematic arrest and torture, in particular of children between the ages of 12 and 18. Their stories are backed up by an article in The Washington Post in June 2005 which reported that the accounts of physical abuse of Iraqis by American soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison were similar to the techniques used by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian detainees.

Also, a report by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and the Released Prisoners states that Israeli occupation forces have arrested one-fifth of the Palestinians in the occupied territories, including 4,000 children and 1389 students arrested since the second Intifada.

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