3 aug 2019
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To the dismay of Palestine’s delegation to the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres did not include Israel in his new "list of shame", which includes states committing grave violations against children, despite the figures and statistics in the report about serious violation of rights of children in Palestine, said Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s permanent representative to the UN.
The UN Security Council held yesterday in New York an open debate on the annual UN report on situation of children in times of conflict, which Guterres released on Wednesday. According to the report, the number of Palestinian children killed or injured reached its highest level in 2018 since 2014. It said 59 were killed in 2018, 56 of them by the Israelis army, nearly a four-fold increase over 2017. In the West Bank, Israeli forces injured 1,398 children in 2018, while in Gaza they injured 1,335 children. The Injuries included permanent disabilities and limb amputations. It also said 203 children are held in Israeli prisons, most of them in administrative detention, without charge or trial. By the end of December 2018, 87 children were sentenced to serve time in Israeli prisons for resisting the occupation, said the report, and these children are subjected to harsh conditions of detention and ill-treatment. "The UN secretary-general should include Israel in the 'list of shame’ and add it to the countries that commit horrendous acts, especially against children," said Mansour before the start of the session. He said that by not including Israel on the list undercuts efforts to put an |
end to the criminal violations against children around the world and questions the credibility of the list while making it open for criticism and endangers the lives of Palestinian children due to the lack of any kind of accountability to Israel.
Gutierrez instructed his personal representative, Virginia Gamba, to visit the region and occupied Palestine to further investigate what came in the report regarding the injuries and maiming of Palestinian children.
The Palestinian delegation called on Guterres to take into account that the Israeli violations in Palestine were caused by the military occupation, which should be mentioned in the section on Palestine in the report, and to make sure that Israeli practices amount to collective punishment, particularly the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip since 2006.
They also said that since 2000, Israel, the occupying Power, had arrested 10,000 Palestinian children.
"We call on the international community to save an entire generation. The difficult circumstances, humiliation, panic and trauma caused by the detention of the Palestinian child are impeding society and aim at weakening it," said the delegation.
It attributed Israel's persistence in its inhuman practices to its enjoyment of international impunity, which protects it from sanctions and accountability.
Human Rights Watch has also criticized the UN secretary-general for not including Israel in the list.
“The UN secretary-general simply refuses to hold to account all warring parties that have inflicted tremendous suffering on children,” said Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “By listing selected violators but not others, Secretary-General Guterres is ignoring the UN’s own evidence and undermining efforts to protect children in conflict.”
Guterres failed to list the Israeli army in the new report as responsible for grave violations against children, including killing and maiming, despite considerable evidence of violations by these parties, said HRW in a press release issued last week.
“Previous reports have also found the Israel Defense Forces responsible for killing and maiming Palestinian children, but the secretary-general has yet to include the Israeli forces in his list of abusers,” it said.
Gutierrez instructed his personal representative, Virginia Gamba, to visit the region and occupied Palestine to further investigate what came in the report regarding the injuries and maiming of Palestinian children.
The Palestinian delegation called on Guterres to take into account that the Israeli violations in Palestine were caused by the military occupation, which should be mentioned in the section on Palestine in the report, and to make sure that Israeli practices amount to collective punishment, particularly the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip since 2006.
They also said that since 2000, Israel, the occupying Power, had arrested 10,000 Palestinian children.
"We call on the international community to save an entire generation. The difficult circumstances, humiliation, panic and trauma caused by the detention of the Palestinian child are impeding society and aim at weakening it," said the delegation.
It attributed Israel's persistence in its inhuman practices to its enjoyment of international impunity, which protects it from sanctions and accountability.
Human Rights Watch has also criticized the UN secretary-general for not including Israel in the list.
“The UN secretary-general simply refuses to hold to account all warring parties that have inflicted tremendous suffering on children,” said Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “By listing selected violators but not others, Secretary-General Guterres is ignoring the UN’s own evidence and undermining efforts to protect children in conflict.”
Guterres failed to list the Israeli army in the new report as responsible for grave violations against children, including killing and maiming, despite considerable evidence of violations by these parties, said HRW in a press release issued last week.
“Previous reports have also found the Israel Defense Forces responsible for killing and maiming Palestinian children, but the secretary-general has yet to include the Israeli forces in his list of abusers,” it said.
2 aug 2019
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies (PCBS), released a report on August 1, 2019 confirming that the Israeli occupation authorities have continued to arbitrarily detain Palestinians during the past month of July.
The PCBS has documented 420 cases of arrest of Palestinians during July, including 62 minors, 10 women, a deputy, and the martyr of the prisoners movement.
Riyad al-Ashqar, researcher for PCBS stated that the report documented 14 cases of arrest of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, 4 of whom were fishermen during the course of their work in the Gaza Strip, and the arrest of 10 young men and women while crossing the separation fence in the east of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli occupation forces arrested member of the Legislative Council, Azzam Noman Salhab, (63), from Hebron was placed under administrative detention, without charges.
The Arrest of Minors
Al-Ashqar affirmed that the occupation, targeted minor children with arrest and summons, 62 cases of the arrest of chlldren, including the siblings Mohammed Mazen Furcal (7) and Mahmoud Ezzedine Furcal (11), Amir Obeid (11), of Jerusalem, whom Israeli authorities interrogated.
In a serious precedent that exceeds all moral and legal standards, the occupation summoned the child Mohammed Rabea ‘Alyan (4) to interrogate him, as well as summoning Qais Firas Obaid (6) for interrogation, suspected of ‘throwing stones at police cars’.
The Arrest of Women
Al-Aqshar revealed that the Israeli occupation forces have persisted in the arrest of Palestinian women, during the July arrests, in addition to breaking into a house belonging to Shadi Sidr from Hebron, and the investigation of his daughter Angel (6), under the pretext that she had been ‘harassing the settlers’.
Fathia Sa’id Barghouthi (63), and the mother of Murad Barghouthi, was detained for at least six hours during her return to Palestine from Jordan, was interrogated during the entire period of her detention.
Alaa’ al-Bashir (23), from Qalqiliya, was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces after she was summoned for interrogation, and detained for several weeks by the Palestinian security services. Another young woman, Sheroq Mohammed Al-Badin (25), from Bethlehem, was placed under a six month administrative detention order, with no charges.
Nagham Mohammad ‘Oleyyan (16) from the town of Issawiya, in the center of Jerusalem, was arrested and released two days later, on the condition that she pay a fine of 1,000 Israeli shekels, and five days of house arrest.
In addition to the arrest of the female teen, Rouen Atef Abu Sneineh (18), at a military checkpoint near the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba, on charges of possession of a knife, Israeli forces arrested Bara Mahmoud, from Jerusalem, Madlyn Issa, and Hayat Al-Zaghal, from Silwan, with her husband and son.
The Death of a Prisoner in Solitary Confinement
The number of Palestinian martyrs of the Prisoner Population this July, rose to 220, after the death of the Palestinian prisoner Nassar Majid Taqatqa (31), from Beit Fajjar in Bethlehem, as a result of torture and medical neglect that he suffered in Israeli interrogation centers and detention. The Israeli occupation forces arrested Taqatqa after invading his home on June 19, 2019. Occupation forces ransacked and damaged the home, and took him for interrogation. He was subjected to harsh and violent torture, and placed in severe conditions, which led to pneumonia infection, and was denied the necessary medical treatment. He was left alone, to fight the infection, in solitary confinement, until he succumbed to the infection, for which the Israeli occupation bears full responsibility.
21 Prisoners on Hunger Strike
Researcher Al-Ashqar confirmed that 21 Palestinian prisoners were on open ended hunger strikes, in opposition to their administrative sentences, in the month of July, 14 of whom suspended their strike after receiving promises to limit the administrative detention. 7 prisoners were still on strike for various periods, the longest being Muhammad Nidal Abu Bakr (22), Mustafa al-Hassanat (25), from Bethlehem, and Hotheifa Bader Halabiyya (33), in occupied Jerusalem, entering their second month in a row, their health situations deteriorating significantly.
Administrative Detention
Al-Ashqar asserted that the Israeli occupation authorities have maintained in July, the unethical practice of administrative detention against the Palestinian prisoners, where the courts issued 51 new administrative detention orders, including 14 new orders, mostly of prisoners that were released from prison, and then re-arrested and placed under administrative detention. 37 orders were for the renewal of the administrative detention, ranging from two months to six months.
Among those issued administrative decisions were Palestinian Minister of Parliament, Muhammad Ismail al-Tal (54), from Hebron, whose administrative detention was extended for a third time for more three months. From Gaza’s ruling party, Hamas leader, Sheikh Nazih Sa’id Abu-Aun (57), from Jenin, had his administrative detention renewed for a third time, and the sentence of Mohammed Anwar Mona (36), from Nablus, was extended for another 4 months.
Palestine Prisoners’ Center for Studies
August 1, 2019
The PCBS has documented 420 cases of arrest of Palestinians during July, including 62 minors, 10 women, a deputy, and the martyr of the prisoners movement.
Riyad al-Ashqar, researcher for PCBS stated that the report documented 14 cases of arrest of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, 4 of whom were fishermen during the course of their work in the Gaza Strip, and the arrest of 10 young men and women while crossing the separation fence in the east of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli occupation forces arrested member of the Legislative Council, Azzam Noman Salhab, (63), from Hebron was placed under administrative detention, without charges.
The Arrest of Minors
Al-Ashqar affirmed that the occupation, targeted minor children with arrest and summons, 62 cases of the arrest of chlldren, including the siblings Mohammed Mazen Furcal (7) and Mahmoud Ezzedine Furcal (11), Amir Obeid (11), of Jerusalem, whom Israeli authorities interrogated.
In a serious precedent that exceeds all moral and legal standards, the occupation summoned the child Mohammed Rabea ‘Alyan (4) to interrogate him, as well as summoning Qais Firas Obaid (6) for interrogation, suspected of ‘throwing stones at police cars’.
The Arrest of Women
Al-Aqshar revealed that the Israeli occupation forces have persisted in the arrest of Palestinian women, during the July arrests, in addition to breaking into a house belonging to Shadi Sidr from Hebron, and the investigation of his daughter Angel (6), under the pretext that she had been ‘harassing the settlers’.
Fathia Sa’id Barghouthi (63), and the mother of Murad Barghouthi, was detained for at least six hours during her return to Palestine from Jordan, was interrogated during the entire period of her detention.
Alaa’ al-Bashir (23), from Qalqiliya, was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces after she was summoned for interrogation, and detained for several weeks by the Palestinian security services. Another young woman, Sheroq Mohammed Al-Badin (25), from Bethlehem, was placed under a six month administrative detention order, with no charges.
Nagham Mohammad ‘Oleyyan (16) from the town of Issawiya, in the center of Jerusalem, was arrested and released two days later, on the condition that she pay a fine of 1,000 Israeli shekels, and five days of house arrest.
In addition to the arrest of the female teen, Rouen Atef Abu Sneineh (18), at a military checkpoint near the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba, on charges of possession of a knife, Israeli forces arrested Bara Mahmoud, from Jerusalem, Madlyn Issa, and Hayat Al-Zaghal, from Silwan, with her husband and son.
The Death of a Prisoner in Solitary Confinement
The number of Palestinian martyrs of the Prisoner Population this July, rose to 220, after the death of the Palestinian prisoner Nassar Majid Taqatqa (31), from Beit Fajjar in Bethlehem, as a result of torture and medical neglect that he suffered in Israeli interrogation centers and detention. The Israeli occupation forces arrested Taqatqa after invading his home on June 19, 2019. Occupation forces ransacked and damaged the home, and took him for interrogation. He was subjected to harsh and violent torture, and placed in severe conditions, which led to pneumonia infection, and was denied the necessary medical treatment. He was left alone, to fight the infection, in solitary confinement, until he succumbed to the infection, for which the Israeli occupation bears full responsibility.
21 Prisoners on Hunger Strike
Researcher Al-Ashqar confirmed that 21 Palestinian prisoners were on open ended hunger strikes, in opposition to their administrative sentences, in the month of July, 14 of whom suspended their strike after receiving promises to limit the administrative detention. 7 prisoners were still on strike for various periods, the longest being Muhammad Nidal Abu Bakr (22), Mustafa al-Hassanat (25), from Bethlehem, and Hotheifa Bader Halabiyya (33), in occupied Jerusalem, entering their second month in a row, their health situations deteriorating significantly.
Administrative Detention
Al-Ashqar asserted that the Israeli occupation authorities have maintained in July, the unethical practice of administrative detention against the Palestinian prisoners, where the courts issued 51 new administrative detention orders, including 14 new orders, mostly of prisoners that were released from prison, and then re-arrested and placed under administrative detention. 37 orders were for the renewal of the administrative detention, ranging from two months to six months.
Among those issued administrative decisions were Palestinian Minister of Parliament, Muhammad Ismail al-Tal (54), from Hebron, whose administrative detention was extended for a third time for more three months. From Gaza’s ruling party, Hamas leader, Sheikh Nazih Sa’id Abu-Aun (57), from Jenin, had his administrative detention renewed for a third time, and the sentence of Mohammed Anwar Mona (36), from Nablus, was extended for another 4 months.
Palestine Prisoners’ Center for Studies
August 1, 2019
1 aug 2019
The 17-year old Wassim Eyad Dari was injured by a fracture in the left hand as a result of the Israeli occupation forces assault on him during his detention in the village of Issawiya.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center ‘s lawyer of the minors, Mohammad Mahmoud, said that he had visited the detainee Wassim Dari in Hadassah Hospital in Issawiya, where he was transferred for treatment after suffering fractures in his left hand, in addition to various bruises and pains.
The lawyer said that Wassim Dari is undergoing treatment in the hospital while he is in detention whilehandcuffed.
Surveillance cameras documented the moment Dari was arrested while walking in Issawiya. He was attacked by Israeli occupation forces, dragged on the ground and tied his hands behind him back. He was beaten and kicked while being taken to the police car. video
Mohammed Abu Hummus, member of the follow-up committee in Issawiya, said that the Israeli occupation forces assaulted Mrs. Sabah Dari, 60, Wassim’s grandmother, by pushing her several times while trying to check on her grandson and reach him, causing her to fall to the ground, lose consciousness and suffer multiple bruises. She was then transferred to Hadassah Hospital in Issawiya for treatment. video video
He added that the occupation forces assaulted and pushed dozens of residents of the village and foreigners and Jews that are in solidaritywith the village, concurrently with the arrest of Dari; they also arrested one of the foreigners.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center ‘s lawyer of the minors, Mohammad Mahmoud, said that he had visited the detainee Wassim Dari in Hadassah Hospital in Issawiya, where he was transferred for treatment after suffering fractures in his left hand, in addition to various bruises and pains.
The lawyer said that Wassim Dari is undergoing treatment in the hospital while he is in detention whilehandcuffed.
Surveillance cameras documented the moment Dari was arrested while walking in Issawiya. He was attacked by Israeli occupation forces, dragged on the ground and tied his hands behind him back. He was beaten and kicked while being taken to the police car. video
Mohammed Abu Hummus, member of the follow-up committee in Issawiya, said that the Israeli occupation forces assaulted Mrs. Sabah Dari, 60, Wassim’s grandmother, by pushing her several times while trying to check on her grandson and reach him, causing her to fall to the ground, lose consciousness and suffer multiple bruises. She was then transferred to Hadassah Hospital in Issawiya for treatment. video video
He added that the occupation forces assaulted and pushed dozens of residents of the village and foreigners and Jews that are in solidaritywith the village, concurrently with the arrest of Dari; they also arrested one of the foreigners.
The Israeli authorities summoned last night an 8-year-old girl from the southern West Bank city of Hebron for interrogation, reported Palestinian security sources, the third such summons of children in recent days.
The sources told WAFA that Israeli soldiers raided the home of Shadi Sadr in Hebron city center and handed him a summons for his daughter Malak, 8, to appear at an interrogation center for allegedly harassing the heavily-guarded Israeli settlers in the occupied part of the city.
Israeli police summoned two days ago 4-year-old Mohammad Ilian and yesterday summoned 6-year-old Qais Obeid, both from Issawiyeh neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, for interrogation on claim the former threw a stone and the second a beverage at a police vehicle in the neighborhood.
The sources told WAFA that Israeli soldiers raided the home of Shadi Sadr in Hebron city center and handed him a summons for his daughter Malak, 8, to appear at an interrogation center for allegedly harassing the heavily-guarded Israeli settlers in the occupied part of the city.
Israeli police summoned two days ago 4-year-old Mohammad Ilian and yesterday summoned 6-year-old Qais Obeid, both from Issawiyeh neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, for interrogation on claim the former threw a stone and the second a beverage at a police vehicle in the neighborhood.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday evening kidnaped two Palestinian kids under age 16 during their presence in a border area, south of the Gaza Strip.
According to the Hebrew website 0404, Israeli forces in southern Gaza spotted and arrested two kids, aged 11 and 15, after they infiltrated into an Israeli border area.
The IOF claimed one of the boys was found in possession of a knife.
According to the Hebrew website 0404, Israeli forces in southern Gaza spotted and arrested two kids, aged 11 and 15, after they infiltrated into an Israeli border area.
The IOF claimed one of the boys was found in possession of a knife.
A 10-year-old Palestinian child was injured on Wednesday evening while being chased by the Israeli police forces in Jerusalem.
Local sources said that Mohammed Tarwa suffered some wounds while being chased by the Israeli police who attempted to arrest him.
Tarwa was transferred to a local medical center for treatment, they added.
Meanwhile, the Israeli police arrested Yousef Obeid, 21, at the western entrance to al-Isawiya town in Jerusalem, according to Wadi Hilweh Information Center.
Al-Isawiya has been subjected to a military siege and almost daily home raids and arrest campaigns for over two months as part of a collective punishment policy pursued against the residents.
Local sources said that Mohammed Tarwa suffered some wounds while being chased by the Israeli police who attempted to arrest him.
Tarwa was transferred to a local medical center for treatment, they added.
Meanwhile, the Israeli police arrested Yousef Obeid, 21, at the western entrance to al-Isawiya town in Jerusalem, according to Wadi Hilweh Information Center.
Al-Isawiya has been subjected to a military siege and almost daily home raids and arrest campaigns for over two months as part of a collective punishment policy pursued against the residents.
For the fourth year in a row, and despite the urging of several leading human rights organizations and experts, including United Nations Special Rapporteurs, the United Nations has failed again to include Israel in its annual blacklist of armed forces that commit atrocities against youth, said Hanan Ashrawi, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), today.
“This failure is inexcusable, given Israel’s dismal human rights record and its documented abuses against Palestinian children, including the arbitrary detention of hundreds of children every year, its use of torture against them and other grave violations, including the deliberate killing and maiming of roughly 2,800 Palestinian children in 2018 alone.
Turning a blind eye to Israeli crimes and failing to apply such nominal standards of accountability emboldens the occupying power to escalate its flagrant violations, as documented and reported by human rights organizations,” she said in a statement, according to WAFA.
“In light of the international community’s abdication of its responsibilities vis-à-vis international law, it is no surprise that Israel continues to commit war crimes and violate international law and human rights on a daily basis with shameful impunity.
Additionally, the right-wing in Israel is exploiting the current US-Israeli partnership to create new facts on the ground with absolute disregard to international law and declared rejection of the internationally-endorsed requirements of peace, including Palestinian statehood.
This was clearly evident in the Israeli Cabinet’s farcical “approval” of Palestinian homes in so-called Area C in the occupied West Bank as a way to whitewash the construction of 6,000 new illegal settlement units on stolen Palestinian land.
In this regard, we reaffirm that all settlement construction in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, is illegal and constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute. Israeli intransigence and American collusion cannot change this legal fact or set it aside.”
Ashrawi concluded by stressing that “the international community and its bodies have a legal and moral obligation to hold Israel accountable for its relentless criminality and rogue conduct, to preserve the standing and relevance of the international rules-based system, and to ensure that the Palestinian people enjoy their inalienable and absolute rights to self-determination and freedom.
“Peace and prosperity in the region will remain elusive so long as racist and colonial agendas that dismiss Palestinian rights are perpetuated by international inaction on the one hand and US collusion on the other.”
“This failure is inexcusable, given Israel’s dismal human rights record and its documented abuses against Palestinian children, including the arbitrary detention of hundreds of children every year, its use of torture against them and other grave violations, including the deliberate killing and maiming of roughly 2,800 Palestinian children in 2018 alone.
Turning a blind eye to Israeli crimes and failing to apply such nominal standards of accountability emboldens the occupying power to escalate its flagrant violations, as documented and reported by human rights organizations,” she said in a statement, according to WAFA.
“In light of the international community’s abdication of its responsibilities vis-à-vis international law, it is no surprise that Israel continues to commit war crimes and violate international law and human rights on a daily basis with shameful impunity.
Additionally, the right-wing in Israel is exploiting the current US-Israeli partnership to create new facts on the ground with absolute disregard to international law and declared rejection of the internationally-endorsed requirements of peace, including Palestinian statehood.
This was clearly evident in the Israeli Cabinet’s farcical “approval” of Palestinian homes in so-called Area C in the occupied West Bank as a way to whitewash the construction of 6,000 new illegal settlement units on stolen Palestinian land.
In this regard, we reaffirm that all settlement construction in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, is illegal and constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute. Israeli intransigence and American collusion cannot change this legal fact or set it aside.”
Ashrawi concluded by stressing that “the international community and its bodies have a legal and moral obligation to hold Israel accountable for its relentless criminality and rogue conduct, to preserve the standing and relevance of the international rules-based system, and to ensure that the Palestinian people enjoy their inalienable and absolute rights to self-determination and freedom.
“Peace and prosperity in the region will remain elusive so long as racist and colonial agendas that dismiss Palestinian rights are perpetuated by international inaction on the one hand and US collusion on the other.”
31 july 2019
Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan, a four-year-old Palestinian boy, was taken to a police station for interrogation by Israeli forces
Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was summoned by the Israeli police to be interrogated; the summons was handed to his family in occupied Jerusalem, who had to take him to the police station. The boy is just four years old, but he is not the first child to be taken for interrogation.
We know of this particular child’s predicament because of the support that he received from his neighbours who accompanied him to the police station on Tuesday morning. The images of the incident flashed around the world.
He left his house with his father in the Issawiya neighbourhood in Jerusalem, holding a toy and some snacks in case he got hungry during the investigation or even arrest for allegedly throwing stones.
The police realised that their usual intimidation of children was on social media thanks to the Palestinians and their mobile phones, who captured images of the violations committed by the occupation forces. The police had to deny their intention to subject the child to investigation, claiming instead that they were going to question the father over the accusations that his son threw stones at the occupation forces.
The boy’s family promptly showed the actual summons issued the previous evening and naming Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan specifically.
What happened to this Palestinian child exposed the reality of the physical and psychological violence that the Israeli occupation authorities inflict on Palestinian children, most of which takes place out of sight.
Israel’s arrest and torture of Palestinian children is nothing new, despite Israeli propaganda to the contrary. The sanctions imposed by the occupation authorities on some of those youngsters include house arrest and banning them from school.
Such sentences have been imposed on 60 to 100 Palestinian children under 14 in Jerusalem alone. Older children may be sent to prison, as was the case with 16-year-old Fawzi Al-Junaidi, who was beaten by a soldier as he passed by and then arrested with great brutality by 23 soldiers in Hebron on 7 December, 2017. Al-Junaidi was blindfolded and handcuffed, in a horrifying scene which was reported by the media worldwide.
Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was summoned by the Israeli police to be interrogated; the summons was handed to his family in occupied Jerusalem, who had to take him to the police station. The boy is just four years old, but he is not the first child to be taken for interrogation.
We know of this particular child’s predicament because of the support that he received from his neighbours who accompanied him to the police station on Tuesday morning. The images of the incident flashed around the world.
He left his house with his father in the Issawiya neighbourhood in Jerusalem, holding a toy and some snacks in case he got hungry during the investigation or even arrest for allegedly throwing stones.
The police realised that their usual intimidation of children was on social media thanks to the Palestinians and their mobile phones, who captured images of the violations committed by the occupation forces. The police had to deny their intention to subject the child to investigation, claiming instead that they were going to question the father over the accusations that his son threw stones at the occupation forces.
The boy’s family promptly showed the actual summons issued the previous evening and naming Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan specifically.
What happened to this Palestinian child exposed the reality of the physical and psychological violence that the Israeli occupation authorities inflict on Palestinian children, most of which takes place out of sight.
Israel’s arrest and torture of Palestinian children is nothing new, despite Israeli propaganda to the contrary. The sanctions imposed by the occupation authorities on some of those youngsters include house arrest and banning them from school.
Such sentences have been imposed on 60 to 100 Palestinian children under 14 in Jerusalem alone. Older children may be sent to prison, as was the case with 16-year-old Fawzi Al-Junaidi, who was beaten by a soldier as he passed by and then arrested with great brutality by 23 soldiers in Hebron on 7 December, 2017. Al-Junaidi was blindfolded and handcuffed, in a horrifying scene which was reported by the media worldwide.
Israelis soldiers arrest Palestinian teen Fawzi Muhammad Al-Juneidi in Jerusalem on 8 December, 2017
Psychologically, the most severe terror inflicted on Palestinian children is to witness some of these horrific experiences across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem when people from their neighbourhoods are arrested by the Israelis.
The most traumatising experiences are those which take place within Palestinian homes when the occupation forces raid at dawn almost daily in villages and towns in order to abduct people as they sleep.
These violent campaigns intimidate the whole Palestinian community and attempt systematically to deter anyone from challenging the occupation. The hearts of dozens of Palestinian children tremble every week as they witness the arrest of their fathers, the symbol of their protection, their elder brothers or even their mothers and sisters.
Such incidents remain engraved in their hearts and minds and give them a motive to turn their anger against the occupation and its soldiers, either by shouting at them or other means, including throwing stones. This in turn may lead to yet more field executions by the Israeli occupation forces using live bullets against school children, as they do across the West Bank (and in the Gaza Strip, of course). This has become almost routine since the autumn of 2015.
Demolition and forced eviction orders delivered by the occupation authorities to Palestinian families throughout Jerusalem and the West Bank also intimidate children. Those delivered to the Bedouin village of Khan Al-Ahmar in East Jerusalem are an example of the continuous oppression of Palestinian Bedouins and their communities, which have been threatened for years with forced displacement throughout Oslo’s “Area C” in which Israel has administrative and security control.
In these villages, Palestinian children live under constant existential threat in their own homes.
Indeed, every aspect of Palestinian childhood is under threat, especially in some neighbourhoods of Jerusalem, where the Israeli authorities have ordered the demolition of “unlicensed” homes. The occupation uses such orders to ensure that it has greater control and can expand illegal settlements on Palestinian land.
While doing so, it also blocks applications for building permits submitted by local Palestinians who know that if they build without a permit their home will be destroyed sooner or later. Demolitions are tragic events, as we saw in Wadi Al-Hummus last week, when bulldozers and explosives left 100 Palestinian families homeless, to the delight of the Israeli soldiers responsible. We can’t imagine how this will affect the children of those families.
Thankfully, Palestinian youngsters born and brought up under Israel’s occupation learn to be resilient from their elders. Furthermore, they are social media savvy, so incidents like the incident with Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan on his way to interrogation at the hands of Israeli officials will never go unrecorded.
Psychologically, the most severe terror inflicted on Palestinian children is to witness some of these horrific experiences across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem when people from their neighbourhoods are arrested by the Israelis.
The most traumatising experiences are those which take place within Palestinian homes when the occupation forces raid at dawn almost daily in villages and towns in order to abduct people as they sleep.
These violent campaigns intimidate the whole Palestinian community and attempt systematically to deter anyone from challenging the occupation. The hearts of dozens of Palestinian children tremble every week as they witness the arrest of their fathers, the symbol of their protection, their elder brothers or even their mothers and sisters.
Such incidents remain engraved in their hearts and minds and give them a motive to turn their anger against the occupation and its soldiers, either by shouting at them or other means, including throwing stones. This in turn may lead to yet more field executions by the Israeli occupation forces using live bullets against school children, as they do across the West Bank (and in the Gaza Strip, of course). This has become almost routine since the autumn of 2015.
Demolition and forced eviction orders delivered by the occupation authorities to Palestinian families throughout Jerusalem and the West Bank also intimidate children. Those delivered to the Bedouin village of Khan Al-Ahmar in East Jerusalem are an example of the continuous oppression of Palestinian Bedouins and their communities, which have been threatened for years with forced displacement throughout Oslo’s “Area C” in which Israel has administrative and security control.
In these villages, Palestinian children live under constant existential threat in their own homes.
Indeed, every aspect of Palestinian childhood is under threat, especially in some neighbourhoods of Jerusalem, where the Israeli authorities have ordered the demolition of “unlicensed” homes. The occupation uses such orders to ensure that it has greater control and can expand illegal settlements on Palestinian land.
While doing so, it also blocks applications for building permits submitted by local Palestinians who know that if they build without a permit their home will be destroyed sooner or later. Demolitions are tragic events, as we saw in Wadi Al-Hummus last week, when bulldozers and explosives left 100 Palestinian families homeless, to the delight of the Israeli soldiers responsible. We can’t imagine how this will affect the children of those families.
Thankfully, Palestinian youngsters born and brought up under Israel’s occupation learn to be resilient from their elders. Furthermore, they are social media savvy, so incidents like the incident with Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan on his way to interrogation at the hands of Israeli officials will never go unrecorded.
A few hours after summoning a four-year-old child in Jerusalem, the Israeli occupation police issued on Tuesday a summons for interrogation against another kid.
According to local sources in Issawiya district, 6-year-old Qais Obeid received a summons from the Israeli police ordering him to go to one of their stations in the holy city on Wednesday morning.
Last Monday, police forces stormed Issawiya district, east Jerusalem, in an attempt to capture four-year-old Mohamed Aliyan before handing his family a summons for interrogation. video
The Israeli police accused the children of throwing stones at their forces in Issawiya.
According to local sources in Issawiya district, 6-year-old Qais Obeid received a summons from the Israeli police ordering him to go to one of their stations in the holy city on Wednesday morning.
Last Monday, police forces stormed Issawiya district, east Jerusalem, in an attempt to capture four-year-old Mohamed Aliyan before handing his family a summons for interrogation. video
The Israeli police accused the children of throwing stones at their forces in Issawiya.
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