Report: Palestinian children suffering from trauma because of Israel's prisons

 

The Organization of Save the Children (Save the Children) in a report that the vast majority of hundreds of Palestinian children who are placed Israeli jails each year suffer from nightmares, bedwetting and anxiety after their release.
She said the charity in the report published on Monday that the Israeli army arrested more than 8,000 Palestinian children since 2000 in the occupied West Bank and the Governor of children as young as twelve years before military courts, mostly on suspicion of throwing soldiers or Israeli car with stones.
Said Iyad lame head of Amnesty International in the Palestinian territories in the West Bank news conference that 98 percent of the children who were arrested said they were subjected to verbal or physical violence at the hands of Israeli soldiers, leaving the vast majority of psychological wounds of them.
The Gimp said that more than 90 percent of the children suffered from PTSD.
The report is based on the arrest of Israel to the Palestinians under eighteen years of age to a survey of 292 children were detained and then released by Israel.
According to data compiled by the Global Movement for the Defense of Children, an organization that Palestinian rights to the 2301 children were arrested last year compared with 3470 children in 2010. The group said that there are currently 170 Palestinian minors in Israeli jails.
Report said the arrests have a devastating impact on children and their families and their communities.
He added that the children suffer from the effects, including symptoms of post-traumatic stress and fear out of the house as well as psychiatric symptoms such as anxiety attacks and nightmares, while exaggerating the families in the prevention and refuse to let the children out of the house.
The Israeli army says that throwing stones at a serious crime that could lead to injury or death. Said Larry Halitar spokesman for the Israeli army "engaged Palestinian boys sometimes as young as 13 or 14 years in the stone-throwing by hand or catapults on Israeli cars or army vehicles.
"Frequented only that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) arrested children .. but people do not realize that these children are violent extreme. Instead of soccer practice putting the lives of Israelis in danger."
Sodamena criticized the cache manager program to protect the child Fund United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) told the press conference Israel's use of military tribunals to prosecute Palestinian minors.
"The children can not be tried systematically in any other place in front of military courts and such courts are inadequate to protect their rights."
Ahmed said he Desouki arrested at his home in the camp of Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah in the raid late at night last year, where he was at the age of 16 years.
He told Reuters that a large group of armed Israeli soldiers stormed the house and Oikzawh of sleep and dragged him from his bed and handcuffed him, blindfolded him and put him in a jeep.
He said he was beaten during lengthy interrogations and eventually forced to confess that he threw stones at Israeli soldiers.
He said the respondents were leaving him alone for long periods in the interrogation room and handcuffed for long periods of pressure on him to confess.
Sentenced to 18 months in prison Desouki but spent half of it and was released in an exchange of prisoners.
A senior officer in the army that the army was aware of complaints of ill-treatment of the Palestinians and the Palace it was reviewing how to deal with the events of the detainees.
Of Jehan Abdullah
Source: Reuters