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\r\n\tMore than 10,000 Palestinian minors in the occupied West Bank and al-Quds ('Jerusalem') have been held by the Israeli army for varying periods since 2000, a PLO official has revealed.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe official also said 20 percent of those detained are minors, according to al-Akhbar.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\t"Israel does not provide any immunity for children and regularly violates international agreements on children's rights by humiliating and torturing them and denying them fair trials," Issa Qaraqe, head of the PLO's committee on detainees, said on the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tQaraqe went on to say that Israeli forces have detained around 3,000 Palestinians – for varying periods – since June of this year, some 30 percent of whom were children.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tAround 95 percent of detained children were subject to beatings and torture by Israeli security personnel while in detention, while many were forced to make confessions under duress and undergo unfair trials, Qaraqe said, adding that at least 300 children are still detained in Israeli jails on various charges.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tViolent practices by Israeli soldiers as well as settlers against Palestinian children is endemic and often abetted by the authorities.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2014-12-18 18:29:52","content_date_finish":"2014-12-18 18:29:52","content_date_register":"2014-12-18 18:29:52","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"123996","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"3415846408","attach_date_register":"2014-12-18 18:29:56","attach_id":"124863","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"390","attach_img_height":"250","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"140","visit_date_last":"2025-05-10 09:34:24","attach_title":"10,000 Palestinian kids held since 2000","node_title":"Commentaries","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":134, \"left\":25, \"right\":26}]"}]]