The Palestinian Centre for the Defence of Prisoners reported that Israel has arrested 1,700 Palestinian children in the illegally occupied West Bank since October, 2023, in addition to dozens more in Gaza, with limited information available about the fate of some detainees. In a report titled “The Reality of Palestinian Children’s Detention in Israeli Prisons”, the centre documented more than 55,500 child arrests since 1967, noting that around 350 children remain imprisoned, including some serving sentences and others held under administrative detention. The report states that arrests are often carried out through night raids and home incursions, with children reportedly detained while handcuffed and blindfolded. READ: Israel forces detaining record numbers of Palestinian children without charge It also cited testimonies […]
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