A barefooted runner passes by the Israeli wall during the Palestine eighth international Marathon, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Friday, March 18, 2022
ISRAELI forces arrested 850 Palestinian children in the occupied territories in the past year, a leading prisoners advocacy group reported today.
The Committee of Families of al-Quds Prisoners detailed the atrocities committed by Israel, with children held in appalling conditions without access to daylight.
Some are detained without being given a specified jail term amid fears they could be held indefinitely under draconian administrative detention orders, according to the report.
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
