The Authority for Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said in a joint statement issued on Wednesday that Israel has arrested at least 770 children under the age of 18 from the West Bank since October 7 last year.
Two Palestinian human rights organizations confirmed, according to Reuters, that Israel continues to detain 270 children, 100 of whom are in administrative detention until now.
The joint statement indicated that this number was not recorded even at the height of the confrontation in the two Palestinian intifadas, and added that the arrest of children is one of the most dangerous developments, and that about 100 children are being administratively detained on charges of having a secret file.
The occupation continues to arrest children in the Gaza Strip, classifying them as “unlawful combatants,” according to the statement, which stressed that the number of children who have been arrested from Gaza is unknown, in light of the continuing crime of enforced disappearance against them inside Israeli camps.
Legal teams were able to visit some of the detained children and collect dozens of testimonies that “reflected the level of brutality practiced against them. Systematic crimes of torture and unprecedented robberies were carried out against them,” according to what was stated in the statement.
Israel uses an old law that allows it to detain Palestinians without trial for a period ranging between 3 and 6 months, subject to renewal, under the pretext of the existence of a secret security file for the detainee.
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