75% of Palestinian Children abducted by Israel are physically tortured

Total bullshit!!!

Israeli Abuse Of Palestinian Children In Prison 'Systematic,' Says UN Report

The ill-treatment of Palestinian minors held within the Israeli military detention system is "widespread, systematic and institutionalised," a report Wednesday by the UN children's fund found.

UNICEF in the 22-page report that examined the Israeli military court system for holding Palestinian children found evidence of practices it said were "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment."

"Ill-treatment of Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalised," it concluded, outlining 38 recommendations to improve the protection of children in custody.

Over the past decade, Israeli forces have arrested, interrogated and prosecuted around 7,000 Palestinian children aged between between 12 and 17, most of them boys, the report said, noting the rate was equivalent to "an average of two children each day."

"In no other country are children systematically tried by juvenile military courts that, by definition, fall short of providing the necessary guarantees to ensure respect for their rights," it said.

The vast majority of arrests are for throwing stones, which is considered an offence under Section 212 of Military Order 1651.

Although the maximum sentence for children of 12 and 13 is six months, the penalty rises dramatically from the age of 14 when a child can face a maximum penalty of between 10 and 20 years depending on the circumstances, it said.

In a step-by-step analysis of the procedure from arrest to trial, the report said the common experience of many children was being "aggressively awakened in the middle of the night by many armed soldiers and being forcibly brought to an interrogation centre tied and blindfolded, sleep deprived and in a state of extreme fear."

Many were subjected to ill-treatment during the journey, with some suffering physical or verbal abuse, being painfully restrained or forced to lie on the floor of a vehicle for a transfer process of between one hour and one day.

In some cases, they suffered prolonged exposure to the elements and a lack of water, food or access to a toilet.

UNICEF said it found no evidence of any detainees being "accompanied by a lawyer or family member during the interrogation" and they were "rarely informed of their rights."

"The interrogation mixes intimidation, threats and physical violence, with the clear purpose of forcing the child to confess," it said, noting they were restrained during interrogation, sometimes for extended periods of time causing pain to their hands, back and legs.

"Children have been threatened with death, physical violence, solitary confinement and sexual assault, against themselves or a family member," it said.

Most children confess at the end of the interrogation, signing forms in Hebrew which they hardly understand.

It also found children had been held in solitary confinement for between two days and a month before being taken to court, or even after sentencing.

During court hearings, children were in leg chains and shackles, and in most cases, "the principal evidence against the child is the child's own confession, in most cases extracted under duress during the interrogation," it found.

"Ultimately, almost all children plead guilty in order to reduce the length of their pretrial detention. Pleading guilty is the quickest way to be released. In short, the system does not allow children to defend themselves," UNICEF concluded.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/israeli-abuse-of-palestinian-children-systematic_n_2817231.html


No Nicko, it's the absolute truth that you don't want to deal with.

And this is what Hamas does with their own children
















I certainly condemn any abuse by Israel authorities on any children, but lets have some facts here. None of these children would even be detained if they had not been indoctrinated and eoncouraged to commits crimes on Israel.
Stop excusing where the real problem is Sassy and start facing up to the facts.

Disturbing photos show militarization of Israeli children





An Israeli boy wearing a military vest throws a mock grenade during a traditional military weapon display to mark the 66th anniversary of Israel’s “independence” at the occupied West Bank settlement of Efrat on 6 May 2014.
(Gali Tibbongali / AFP)

On 6 May, Israelis celebrated their “independence day,” which they mark according to the Jewish lunar calendar.

Traditionally Israeli Jews hold public celebrations and picnics, especially in “national parks” typically built over the ruins of ethnically cleansed and destroyed Palestinian villages.

Meanwhile, with broad support from the Israeli Jewish public, Palestinian public commemorations of the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine – can be punished by law.

Many of the Israeli festivities are celebrations of the so-called “Israel Defense Forces,” better known to Palestinians as the army that occupies them, arrests and kills their children with impunity and helps settlers to steal their land.


n Israeli child holds a rocket launcher as another holds her doll during a traditional military weapon display to mark the 66th anniversary of Israel’s “independence” at the occupied West Bank settlement of Efrat on 6 May 2014.
(Gali Tibbongali / AFP)

Some of these disturbing images of Israeli children being put through military-style training displays at Efrat, an illegal Israeli colony in the occupied West Bank, have been circulating widely online and were published in Haaretz and other media.

A repeated theme of pro-Israeli, anti-Palestinian propaganda is to circulate images of Palestinian children taking part in such militarized displays in order to advance the belief that Palestinian culture is inherently violent and “teaches children hate” and that therefore Israeli violence is a justified defensive response.

But these pictures are remarkable because they reveal the extent to which Israeli culture has been militarized and how Israeli children are not immune to this – a key theme in Max Blumenthal’s book Goliath.

There is no doubt that both Israeli and Palestinian children have been subjected to this kind of brutalization by adults. It is horrifying whenever children are given guns and encouraged to imagine themselves as killers.

Such activities are arguably in violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that member countries “shall refrain from recruiting any person who has not attained the age of fifteen years into their armed forces.”

As I wrote on a previous occasion when such disturbing images of Israeli children appeared:

Children live with the consequences of Israel’s violent occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people, whether it is Israeli children indoctrinated to continue this oppression as adults, or Palestinian children brutalized and traumatized by the organized violence of occupation, colonialism and apartheid that pervades their lives.

This is never a reflection on the children, but on the adults who subject them to such ugliness.


An Israeli boy wearing a military vest crawls on the sand during a traditional military weapon display to mark the 66th anniversary of Israel’s “independence” at the occupied West Bank settlement of Efrat on 6 May 2014.

An Israeli man shows his son how to work a machine-gun during a traditional military weapon display to mark the 66th anniversary of Israel’s “independence” at the occupied West Bank settlement of Efrat on 6 May 2014. (Gali Tibbongali / AFP)
Indoctrinating children

Rela Mazali is the founder of New Profile (newprofile.org), an Israeli organization that supports conscientious objection and advocates for individual refusers.

(video on link)

In this video with The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky, she explains how Israeli culture normalizes military conscription so that people do not even regard militarization as a policy choice but rather as a natural feature of life. The report also includes an interview with refuser Alex Cohn who discusses how Israeli Jewish children are indoctrinated through popular media to look forward to their conscription into the army and to disparage skepticism and refusal.

Mazali also discusses sexual violence in the Israeli military and how the culture has managed to make sexual harassment and assault invisible to its victims.

lectronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/disturbing-photos-show-militarization-israeli-children

And are countless Israeli children attacking Palestinians daily by throwing stones at them shouting they want to wipe them out?
No
You have one event children went to view the Israeli army, not even close to the indoctrination of hate spawned by Hamas to their children where they warped their minds with hate and commit child abuse by encouraging them to attack the Israeli soldiers, knowing that these children will get arrested.
Now that is a crime against humanity.














Now I condemn any torture and abuses of humnan rights by Israel and yet Sassy is silent on the daaily child abuse of chidren by Hamas.
Says it all.

Israeli children stopping and stoning Palestinian children on their way to school in West Bank



It is now so normal that the UN have to provide people to walk to school with the children in the occupied West Bank, because they cannot walk past settlers in safety.

Remember, the settlers are there illegally, it is NOT THEIR LAND

So you have on example.
Again do you see this daily from Israeli Kids?
No.
Do you know why Sassy?
Because they already live alongside over a million Arabs.
How many Arabs now live in Muslims lands Sassy?
How many used to?
I rightly condemn any violations by Israel, yet again you shy away from condemning the clear child abuse enacted by Hamas and many Palestianians and other Muslims around the world with their indoctrination to hate and want to wipe out the Jews.
That shows you turn a blind eye to these wrongs, your hate for Israel is allowing your brain to live with a lie, one that seeks to ignores all these problems.

That's the point you numpty, BECAUSE IT HAS BECOME A DAILY EVENT THE UN HAVE TO PROVIDE PEOPLE TO WALK TO SCHOOL AND BACK WITH THE PALESTINIAN CHILDREN. Or was that something else you didn't know.

risingsun wrote:That's the point you numpty, BECAUSE IT HAS BECOME A DAILY EVENT THE UN HAVE TO PROVIDE PEOPLE TO WALK TO SCHOOL AND BACK WITH THE PALESTINIAN CHILDREN.  Or was that something else you didn't know.

So infantile insults now and still you cannot utter any condemnation about Hamas.
You clearly defend an extremist group who commits some of the worst child abuse possible.
Teaching them to kill themselves in violence to others. Teaching them to hate Jews based on a claim from their religion.
It teaches them to attack soldiers with rocks, using the children for PR garnering hate against Israel.
This is what happens when people are so blinded by hate themselves as you are of Israel.
I see the wrongs they do, but you ignore any wrongs from Hamas full stop, because you want them to succeed in driving out the Jews out of Israel.

Hamas, whatever their faults, and there are many, ARE DEFENDING THEIR OWN LAND.  Israel is the invader, Israel is the stealer of land, Israel is the one locking people in a concentration camp and then bombing it.  Invaded people have every right to defend themselves.

Never seen so much one sided hate from one person. What the hell did the Israel's do to you to make you so hatefull?

I'm not the one being hateful, I, and MILLIONS like me, are now pointing out what Israel has been getting away with for years because of the TRILLIONS of dollars poured into them and the fact they have never been held to account for their crimes.  Jews around the world are saying ENOUGH, NOT IN MY NAME.  The ICC is looking into their crimes against humanity and war crimes, the Boycott Israel campaign is growing and growing.  Their day of terrorising is nearly over.

The people who are being hateful are the people doing this to hundreds of children (and much, much worse) and getting away with it

risingsun wrote:Hamas, whatever their faults, and there are many, ARE DEFENDING THEIR OWN LAND.  Israel is the invader, Israel is the stealer of land, Israel is the one locking people in a concentration camp and then bombing it.  Invaded people have every right to defend themselves.

See you still cannot condemn them, only that they have some faults.
Nobody owns the land, when will you get this into your head?
Seriously, you think the whole are belongs to them and lets face imagine if Hamas did beat the Israelis, what would happen?
Mass genocide is what would happen.
Israel commits wrongs, some have been war crimes, but you argue and defend Hamas, who abuse their children as a nation to the point of indoctrinating them with such hate. To glorify killking themselves taking out as many Jews as possible in the process.
Hamas created the wall, because they kept murdering Jews. They brought this wall on themselves and it has worked, as how many bomb attacks now happen Sassy?
You see because Hamas is intent on killing every Jew you now claimj a concentration cap, a disgusting comparrison, due to the fact this wall wopuld not exist without suicide bombings by Hamas?
Do you stop and think about why?

So you know better than international courts who say Israeli's taking the land for settlement IS ILLEGAL AND AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW.

The land Israel were given is theirs, the rest is Palestine and recognised as such by law.

But then Dodge know more than international lawyers, he'll probably claim a law degree next.

risingsun wrote:So you know better than international courts who say Israeli's taking the land for settlement IS ILLEGAL AND AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW.

The land Israel were given is theirs, the rest is Palestine and recognised as such by law.

But then Dodge know more than international lawyers, he'll probably claim a law degree next.

Oh the UN courts, the same UN that made a decision that the lands should go back to the 1967 lines of which Palestine refused outright?
Yeash that UN you use, which Hamas and palestinians rejected their terms.
Contradiction alert.
Hamas wants the land Israel is today, all of it.
That is what you fail to understand and wipe out the Jews.
Seriously with each post you refuse to condemn Hamas you are culpable to their crimes, because you attempt to justify them based on wrongs done by Israel ignoring at every turn it has been the Arabs from day one that started war on Israel, to be beaten to attempt to wipe them out again and because Israel defends itself with far greater care to not harm civillians unlike Hamas who uses civillians and calls on them to stay in their homes when attacked, so they can yuse them as PR, so people like you buy into it.
So spare me about laws when Hamas does not recognise them

U.N. Panel Says Israeli Settlement Policy Violates Law

GENEVA — Israel has pursued a creeping annexation of the Palestinian territories through the creation of Jewish settlements and committed multiple violations of international law, possibly including war crimes, a United Nations panel said Thursday, calling for an immediate halt to all settlement activity and the withdrawal of all settlers.

Presenting their findings in Geneva after a nearly six-month inquiry for the United Nations Human Rights Council, a panel of three judges, led by Christine Chanet of France, presented its view that Israel’s settlements violated the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit a state from transferring its own civilian population into territory it has occupied.

Asked if Israel’s actions constituted war crimes, Ms. Chanet replied that its offenses fell under Article 8 of the International Criminal Court statute. “Article 8 of the I.C.C. statute is the chapter of war crimes,” she said at a news conference. “That is the answer.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/world/middleeast/un-panel-says-israeli-settlement-policy-violates-law.html

Yes Israel does wrongs,. nobody is denying that, which is why when you have no answer tol my points, you are desperate to cling to some point sassy that has no bearing to my points, when I admit they do wrongs

Try again

You have made no points to answer, which is what you do isn't it? Veya clocked on to that the other night. Tell you what Dodge, you go on apologising for war criminals that depose others from they land, keep people in an open air concentration camp and bomb them, and blow little children into a million pieces, and I'll keep pointing out what they do so you can keep doing it.



And that is very, very mild, because they are all in one piece.

risingsun wrote:You have made no points to answer, which is what you do isn't it?  Veya clocked on to that the other night.  Tell you what Dodge, you go on apologising for war criminals that depose others from they land, keep people in an open air concentration camp and bomb them, and blow little children into a million pieces, and I'll keep pointing out what they do so you can keep doing it.



And that is very, very mild, because they are all in one piece.

Yes I can show pictures from countless conflicts where children die Sassy.
What does that prove?
Does Hamas build bomb shelters for its people like Israel does thus helping to save lives?
No they tell people to stay in their homes after being warned by Israel to leave so they can become martyrs, thus Hamas are ensuring many children die.
Does Hamas fire and store weapons from Schools?
Yes, because hamas knows Israel will target their weapon facilities knowing a strike will cause more children to die, thus gaining more PR,. which they have ensured more children will die.
This is why you are incapble of understanding any conflict.
Look here is a victim of the Dresden Bombing





Now was that bombing necessary?
Do you hold the RAF accountable to war crimes Sassy?

You really are a thick shit.  Israel does not let building materials into Gaza.  Gaza is the most overpopulated area on earth, every bit of Gaza was hit.  Bomb shelters, don't make me laugh!

Israel-Gaza conflict: The myth of Hamas’s human shields
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israelgaza-conflict-the-myth-of-hamass-human-shield-9619810.html

This time you are staying on ignore, because you are just so stupid you should have gone to a special school.

PS you knobhead, Germany attacked us, like Israel attacks Gaza, we considered that was the right thing to do to defend outselves, my Dad was on that raid. You condemn Hamas for defending the people of Gaza using rockets that make dents in roads, not one building has been hit by a Hamas rocket, because they are DEFENDING, not ATTACKING. Israel does enough attacking.

risingsun wrote:You really are a thick shit.  Israel does not let building materials into Gaza.  Gaza is the most overpopulated area on earth, every bit of Gaza was hit.  Bomb shelters, don't make me laugh!

Israel-Gaza conflict: The myth of Hamas’s human shields
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israelgaza-conflict-the-myth-of-hamass-human-shield-9619810.html

This time you are staying on ignore, because you are just so stupid you should have gone to a special school.

More lies, they have been given plenty and have built homes, even though what you fail to grasp is Hamas has bomb shelters, plenty of them.
They are called tunnels the countless many they have used to smuggle in arms and use to attack Israel.
All of which you ignore again, because you just do not like the truth.
Again you fail to grasp they ensure many children die and want many to die, so they can utlize on their deaths with the media.
That is sick beyond belief, they see this children as cannon fodder and ikt does not even register with you how sick that is.

So when Sassy is educated on a subject, where she is shown to be so easily misled, she buries her head in the sand by running away.
Happy with that, place me on ignore, it shows when faced with facts, your attempts to use this site as a propaganda platform for your hate of Israel, are going to be rightly challenged.

Sassy if you keep posting the same sort of thing day after day it could be called spamming. Posters become bored with it and tend to skip over it, they think oh, sassy's on with her hate posts again. Have you noticed you seldom get replies to these posts?

Nicko, posting information, which is ALWAYS DIFFERENT, even if about the same subject IS NOT SPAMMING.  I get lots of reples, unlike Dodges multiple history posts that get put as 'News' for some reason and get very few.


 

Aid agencies sound alarm on Gaza amid fears rebuilding could take a century

Charities unite to point finger at international community over broken promises as they call for lifting of Israeli blockade so that rebuilding can begin



Six months after the ceasefire, Gaza’s residents are still eking out a perilous existence in the shadow of ruined buildings. Traumatised children struggle with the horrors they have seen and teenagers lose hope in the future, said aid agencies, who criticised international donors for reneging on pledges to help.

In a joint statement, 30 aid agencies, including UN bodies and international NGOs, said they were alarmed by the limited progress that had been made to rebuild devastated lives and tackle the root causes of the conflict.

In a separate statement, Oxfam said it would take more than 100 years to reconstruct ruined homes at the present rate of progress.

“We must not fail in Gaza,” said the agency collective. “We must realise the vision of making Gaza a liveable place and a cornerstone of peace and security for all in the region.”

The statement pointed to a dramatic deterioration in the situation since July, pointing out that about 100,000 people remain displaced from their shattered homes.

The agencies said: “Scheduled power cuts persist for up to 18 hours a day. The continued non-payment of the salaries of public sector employees and the lack of progress in the national unity government further increases tensions. With severe restrictions on movement, most of the 1.8 million residents are trapped in the coastal enclave, with no hope for the future.”

Calling on Israel to lift a blockade that has been in place for more than seven years, the statement said the fragile ceasefire must be reinforced and urged all parties to resume negotiations. It also made an urgent call for Egypt to open the Rafah border crossing for humanitarian cases.

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/2/26/1424966659528/1c1dcd59-f927-41cf-86a3-7038d956aabc-620x372.jpeg
Ramba Kafana breastfeeds her baby as light streams into her home , which was heavily damaged during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas. Photograph: Levine/SIPA/Rex

Oxfam said it could take more than a century to complete essential rebuilding of homes, schools and health facilities in Gaza, because the blockade was hampering the arrival of basic building materials.

“Only an end to the blockade … will ensure that people can rebuild their lives,” said Catherine Essoyan, Oxfam’s regional director. “It is utterly deplorable that the international community is once again failing the people of Gaza when they need [assistance] most.”

Over a period of seven weeks, from early July last year, Israel bombed thousands of apartment buildings and homes in Gaza, claiming that it was reacting to rocket attacks by Hamas. More than 2,000 Palestinians – including about 540 children – and 73 Israelis were killed, while more than 11,000 were injured, with many people losing limbs or suffering horrendous burns.

Oxfam estimated that Gaza needed about 800,000 truckloads of construction materials for housing, including steel bars and cement. This would cover the damage done last year, when more than 16,000 homes were destroyed or made uninhabitable and a further 133,000 damaged. It would also cover houses damaged in previous conflicts but never repaired, and housing needs resulting from population growth.

“Less that 0.25% of the truckloads of essential construction materials needed have entered Gaza in the past three months,” said the agency.

Under the blockade, Israel limits the flow of concrete, cement and other materials into Gaza, arguing that they are “dual use” items that could also have a military purpose if taken by Hamas to rebuild the tunnels used to launch rocket attacks on its territory.

The failure to rebuild is exacerbating the trauma of nearly 1 million children, who, the aid agencies said, have experienced unimaginable suffering in three major conflicts spanning six years.

“Children are still coping with a tremendous amount of grief, the loss of loved ones. At the same time, a lot of them are still not in their homes … that’s unsettling, and it doesn’t enable kids to find their equilibrium and move forward,” said Pernille Ironside, chief of the Gaza office for the UN children’s agency, Unicef.

“There is just no visible improvement, let alone a tangible one in their own lives. If we were able to provide real markers of improvement that would instil and reinforce a sense of hope, which is essential,” she said.

About 80,000 children receive group or individual counselling, half of which is provided by Unicef. Even if they do go back to school (some are too scared to return to classrooms bombed last year), children find it difficult to concentrate, partly because of the trauma and partly because of conditions in crowded schools. Teenagers, in particular, were finding it hard to cope, and were experiencing feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, Ironside said.


A Palestinian woman and her children try to keep warm as they sit amid the remains of their home in north Gaza. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

“Even when they apply themselves, the chances of them realising their dreams are miniscule. That sense of loss of hope and helplessness really risks driving some of them over the edge, whether its climbing into rickety boats setting sail for Europe and risking drowning, or trying to jump the fence into Israel and getting shot, or joining a local militant group,” she said.

“These are very real choices that are available to adolescents and young Gazans today and they are going to making those choices more and more unless we provide them with meaningful opportunities that are attainable.”

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ financial tracking service shows that last year’s UN appeal for the occupied territories was only 48% covered, with pledges of $447m (£290m).

Last month, the UN Relief and Works Agency said it had been forced to suspend its cash assistance programme for repairs to damaged and destroyed homes and for rental subsidies because it had not received funds from donors.

The 30 aid agencies urged donors to meet pledges made at a conference in Cairo last October.

“Little of the $5.4bn pledged in Cairo has reached Gaza. Cash assistance to families who lost everything has been suspended and other crucial aid is unavailable due to lack of funds. A return to hostilities is inevitable if progress is not made and the root causes of conflict are not addressed,” they said.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/feb/26/aid-agencies-sound-alarm-on-gaza-amid-fears-rebuilding-could-take-a-century

Well, almost seems pointless when Israel are already getting ready to bomb again this summer.

nicko wrote:Sassy if you keep posting the same sort of thing day after day it could be called spamming. Posters become bored with it and tend to skip over it, they think oh, sassy's on with her hate posts again. Have you noticed you seldom get replies to these posts?

To Sassy its is more important to worry over Palestine than the people suffering in both Iraq and Syria.
She has been indoctrinated Nicko sadly.
Both sides do wrongs in this ongoing conflict with Israel and Gaza, but she refuses to listen to the facts.
This is just a place for her to use as a platform for her propaganda.

Night mate and have a good evening