The Waed Association of Palestinian Prisoners denounced today the conditions in which minors imprisoned in Israel live. In where they are subjected to mistreatment and torture.
In a statement, the NGO affirmed that the country flagrantly violates all international conventions on children’s rights. They suffer extremely harsh detention conditions. Including deprivation of adequate clothing and blankets in the winter cold, severe malnutrition, excessive overcrowding in cells. As well as deliberate medical neglect that threatens their lives, it emphasized.
It also warned of the widespread prevalence of infectious diseases due to the lack of higiene. And the lack of availability of adequate treatment or medical care. Which has a disastrous impact on their physical and mental health. Waed considered these practices to constitute systematic torture and held the Israeli authorities responsable. For the safety and lives of the Palestinian children.
Riyad al-Ashqar, director of the Palestinian Center for Prisoner Studies, revealed this week that Israeli security forces arrested more than 600 children in the occupied territories last year. The expert warned that with these actions, Israel is attempting to negatively impact their psychological and physical well-being. Create a weak and fearful generation that will hesitate to resist the occupation.
To this end, he noted, repressive agencies carry out arrests, harsh interrogations, and inhumane detention conditions. Al-Ashqar pointed out that the Israeli authorities have made the arrest of Palestinian children a primary objective.
Since the 1967 war, when the Gaza Strip and the West Bank were occupied. More than 55,000 minors have been detained, but this campaign intensified after the start of the new cycle of violence in October 2013, he emphasized. Since then, he indicated, abuse and torture against them have increased, as have harsher sentences.
The NGO director emphasized that hundreds of Palestinian children have been deprived of education. As a result of repeated arrests or prolonged detention. The torture begins immediately with raids on their homes in the early morning hours before they are taken. Also to research centers that lack even the most basic public health requirements, he insisted.
There, they are subjected to all forms of mistreatment, abuse. Deprivation, hunger, medical neglect, and beatings, he explained. The prison administration confines them in sections and rooms unfit for human habitation. Where they lack even the most basic necessities, creating an environment conducive to the spread of disease and epidemics, he indicated.
With information from Prensa Latina
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