[ 07/08/2010 - 02:22 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Journalist for Haaretz newspaper Amira Hass said the Israeli occupation forces kidnap every year about 700 Palestinian children, many of them are rounded up from schools, at the pretext of throwing stones at troops and settlers.
Hass affirmed in a report on Friday that that 97 percent of those children complained about their exposure to torture and maltreatment, and 14 percent of them were sexually molested or received sexual threats from their interrogators.
The journalist explained that Israeli military courts started to deal with this issue two years ago when troops kidnapped a number of Palestinian children from Al-Arroub refugee camp on suspicion of throwing stones at passing cars in the area.
She said the soldiers claimed at first they caught the children red-handed throwing stones, but when they were questioned by lawyer Mahmoud Hassan who used facts to confront them, they confessed to not seeing the arrested children throwing stones at cars.
They also confessed to kidnapping children from Al-Zira'iya school in the refugee camp, she added.
Report: 7 Palestinians killed last month, 65 injured
[ 07/08/2010 - 10:05 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Ministry of Planning’s information center in Gaza issued a report Friday monitoring cases of Israel’s violations against the Palestinians in July, 2010.According to the report, 7 Palestinians were killed and 65 injured, and one leader in the Qassam Brigades was assassinated. Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out 10 incursion operations on the Gaza Strip and 90 on the West Bank. There were 4140 cases of raids and house searches in the West Bank so far this year.
IOF troops arrested in July 200 Palestinians, including 19 children and 5 women, the report said, pointing to 1018 arrests so far this year.
86 structures were demolished last month, including the entire Negev village of Araqib. 300 people wee displaced in the incidence. 199 homes have been destroyed since the beginning of 2010.
One fisherman was wounded and two arrested during 5 attacks by IOF troops. The report noted that Israeli attacks against journalists are “ongoing”.
The Gaza Strip is still under siege, the number of barriers around the West Bank reached 585, as 65% of the main roads is closed and about 500 km of roads are prohibited for use by Palestinians.
The Israeli occupation authority revoked the residency of 108 Palestinians in Jerusalem since the beginning of 2010 and 721 in 2009.
17 houses were demolished in Jerusalem since the beginning of this year, including 9 in July.
60 Israeli settlement units were approved for construction in occupied Jerusalem, with blueprints for 60 other homes in Issawiya. 13% of the land area in Jerusalem is under conflict, with Israeli settlers currently controlling 87% of East Jerusalem’s area.
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