<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[DCI: Report to UN Exposes Israel’s Systematic Torture and Ill-treatment of&nbsp;Children]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>PNN &#8211; Palestine News Network &#8211;  10.02.11 &#8211; 12:29</p>
<p>Ramallah – DCI to PNN – after releasing a report  this week documenting torture and Ill-treatment of Palestinian children  in Israeli detention centers, Defence for Children International  -Palestine  Section have asked the UN Special Rapporteurs: on torture;  on the independence of judges and lawyers; and on arbitrary detention;  to ensure that an independent international inquiry investigates  Israel’s abuses of child prisoners.</p>
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<div class="mosimage_caption" style="text-align:center;">Soldiers Arresting a Child &#8211; Archive</div>
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<p>The  latest report of the last 6 months of 2010 contains testimonies of 40  children (aged 12 to 17), 62.5 percent of whom were accused of throwing  stones. This follows DCI-Palestine&#8217;s submission to the UN on 29 January  2011 of 40 cases relating to the detention of Palestinian children from  the occupied West Bank, under the Israeli military court system.</p>
<p>Sir  Geoffrey Bindman of Action for Palestinian Children said, &#8220;This  shocking report discloses persuasive evidence that confessions in Hebrew  are extracted and signed under torture despite the children often not  understanding the language. “Sir Bindman continued to say “A  particularly disturbing claim in the report is that 47.5% (19) of the  children interviewed suffered such abuses in the illegal Israeli  settlements in the West Bank. “</p>
<p>DCI are seeking  investigations of all credible cases of torture, with perpetrators being  brought to justice, and insist that all child prisoners must be  interrogated with audio- visual recording in the presence of a lawyer or  family member.</p>
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<div class="mosimage_caption" style="text-align:center;">Some of the DCI Report Details</div>
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<p>Sir  Bindman said “ The treatment of these children, according to the  report, systematically violates the UN Convention against Torture and  the Fourth Geneva Convention. The international community must insist  that the perpetrators of such abuses are brought to justice and if the  abuses continue effective sanctions must be imposed.&#8221;</p>
<p>According  to the weekly report of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, last  week the Israeli army conducted 31 military incursions into Palestinian  communities in the West Bank during which it arrested 23 Palestinian  civilians, including a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and  seven children.</p>
<p><a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=9539&amp;Itemid=56">PNN &#8211; Palestine News Network &#8211; DCI: Report to UN Exposes Israel’s Systematic Torture and Ill-treatment of Children</a>.</p>
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<h1><strong>Full report here:</strong></h1>
<p>New report from Defence For Children On Palestinian Children: In their own Words:<br />
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dci-pal.org/English/Doc/Press/EASTJERUSALEM_JANUARY2011.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.dci-pal.org/English/Doc/Press/EASTJERUSALEM_JANUARY2011.pdf</a></p>
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