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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					22/12/2010 &#8211; 09:56 AM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">RAMALLAH, (PIC)&#8211; Palestinian rights  expert Abdel Nasser Farwana expressed concerns about Israeli authorities  using West Bank Jewish settlements as a place to detain, single out,  and violently question children.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Excessive force and torture are employed  to squeeze confessions out of children, Farwana documented, adding that  they are at times bargained with and blackmailed before being  transferred to official interrogaion centers and prisons.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Child arrests and torture inside the  settlements poses a disturbing phenomenon that must be addressed by all  possible means. It must not be allowed to continue, Farwana said.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Testimonies given by many released  detainees have disclosed the amount of psychological and physical damage  they sustained while detained. Yet they were not examined by a medical  specialist, and were denied lawyer visits to inform them of their  rrights and witness their ordeals inside the settlements, and were not  visited by any Red Cross official.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Children are the most targeted group in  West Bank settlements and in the Jerusalem Maale Adumim settlement,  Farwana went on to say. “They have been subjected to humiliation, forced  to stand naked or near naked in the cold, and exposed to threats,  blackmail, and bargaining to pull confessions out of them.”</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Farwana called on rights groups and the  media to document those testimonies and shed light on the disturbing  phenomenon, calling the acts a blatant violation of international law.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7BSrhlquyRq3Xsq7bE9LmiXF5i8qm%2fvhcobaMqJenC%2bD5yPrL9rr9XCaMu8%2fTHH2VBo%2bY3tLtaeTZ4ANGKV3734n4NaM0EMI4c%2fJxBiEq2ZI%3d">Farwana: Jewish settlements being used to blackmail children</a>.</p>
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