The Head of the Studies and Documentation Unit of the Prisoners and Detainees Authority, Abdel Nasser Farwana, said that more than 50,000 arrests have been recorded among Palestinian minors since 1967, including 16,655 cases since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000.
"The arrest of children, facts and statistics and their impact on the reality and the future of Palestinian children, presented at the fifth conference of the European Coalition for the support of prisoners in Brussels, said that the arrests in children are part of a systematic policy aimed at distorting and destroying the reality and future of Palestinian childhood.
He pointed out that the annual arrests rate from 2000 to 2010 about 700 cases annually, and rose significantly after that to the rate of arrests in the years (2011-2018) to 1250 cases annually.
Farwana called on all participants to unite efforts and integrate roles and missions to enhance the status of the legal prisoners and the legitimacy of their struggle in general, and expose the violations and crimes committed against Palestinian children.
