The scale and rate at which Palestinian children in Gaza are being killed and injured is without precedent in modern conflicts worldwide. Children in Gaza are dying due to Israel’s intentional practices, in acts that amount to war crimes and “the crime against humanity of extermination.”
There is a growing body of evidence of the systematic nature of sexual assaults against Palestinian detainees.
“After 35 years of defending Palestinian children’s rights, we are not able to overcome operational challenges resulting from Israel’s targeted criminalization of Palestinian human rights organizations,” said DCI-P General Director Khaled Quzmar.
51 percent of the total are held in administrative detention without charge or trial, which is both the highest number and the highest proportion on record since Defense for Children International
As the Western media was obsessing over any claim of minor suffering of Israeli captives, thousands of Palestinians were subject to systematic round-the-clock abuses.
Palestinian American, Mohammed Ibrahim, is one of more than 300 Palestinian children being held indefinitely in Israeli custody.
A 16-year-old Palestinian-American boy who has been detained by the Israeli military since February reports deplorable conditions inside the Israeli prison where he is held.
“For almost two years, the international community has failed to protect Palestinian children. Until the UN chooses to act, this is the fate we are guaranteeing a generation of children in Gaza. Inaction is a choice. Indecision is complicity.”
Israeli and American mercenary forces operating the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites continue to trap, injure, torture, and kill starving Palestinians every day, & minors are no exception.
16 year old Palestinian was held at Megiddo prison for eight months until the parole board said his condition had deteriorated to ‘life-threatening underweight.’