Hamdouneh: 175 child prisoners are denied entry to the new school year

 Raafat Hamdouna, a specialist in prisoners´ issues, said today, Monday, that the Israeli occupation deprives approximately 175 children detained in its prisons, from going to schools like their student counterparts, in contravention of their privacy and requirements confirmed by international conventions and charters and international humanitarian law. .


In a press statement to him, in conjunction with the start of the new school year, Hamdouna called on children´s rights organizations to follow up on the conditions of minor prisoners in Israeli prisons, and to put pressure on the occupation in order to secure their freedom and enroll in their schools to receive their education like other children in the world.

Hamdouneh pointed out that the occupation authorities are committing dozens of violations against children, such as psychological and physical torture, exploiting the child´s weak structure, focusing on torture, threats, abuse and sometimes intimidation with dogs, and using illegal means such as deception and false Promises, cruel treatment, military deterrent court penalties and unfair laws, and with fines. and solitary confinement, the use of force, detention in places unworthy of their age, and provocative searches.

 Hamdouneh pointed at the cruel treatment they are subjected to, in violation of all international norms and conventions that guarantee the protection of these minors, their physical, psychological and educational rights, their communication with their families and guides who direct their lives, and dealing with them as children away from the policy of intimidation with the aim of destroying Palestinian childhood, and inflicting health, psychological, physical and social effects on it. 


He called on children´s human rights organizations to follow up on the conditions of minor detainees in Israeli jails, to hear their testimonies, and to hold the occupying power accountable for its crimes against them, and to secure protection for them.