Prisoners Commission: The occupation has arrested 450 children since the beginning of this year

The Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission revealed that the Israeli occupation authorities have arrested 450 Palestinian children since the beginning of this year, 353 of whom are from the occupied city of Jerusalem.

In today’s report, circulated by Wafa Agency, the commission indicated that the occupation authorities are still holding 170 children in their prisons, in addition to dozens of others who are beyond the age of childhood, most notably the prisoner Ahmed Manasra.

The Commission indicated that the occupation detains children without taking into account the innocence of their childhood and the weakness of their physical structure and without providing them with the minimum of their basic and humanitarian needs, other than what is stipulated in international human rights conventions, specifically the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Commission pointed out that the occupation exposes children to solitary confinement, physical and psychological torture, and imposes exorbitant financial fines on their families, especially the children of Jerusalem, which constitutes an economic burden on the parents who are forced to pay them to avoid their children’s continued stay in detention.

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