ZIONIST TROOPS TORTURE PALESTINIAN CHILDREN IN FREEZING CONDITIONS
Tel Aviv, 30 Shafar 1435/2 January 2014 (MINA) – The Public Committee Against Torture stated on Tuesday the Israeli occupation regime tortures detained Palestinian children in freezing conditions, saying the minors are routinely held in outdoor cages for hours after their arrest.
The organization said the children have to endure freezing temperatures outside transit facilities, stressing that this kind of torture is a long-running practice meant to terrify the detained children.
The NGO added that it’s just one example of the torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian children by Israeli forces, Press tv reported as quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).
Meanwhile, the Jerusalem Magistrates Court on Monday extended the sentence of Ahmad Dawuod Obeid, the mentally-ill Palestinian teenager, arrested by Israeli forces back in August in Issawiya, near East al-Quds (Jerusalem). Obeid was put under house arrest on charges of throwing stones at Israeli forces.
Aouda Zbeidat, Obeid’s lawyer from Addameer prisoners’ group, accused the Israeli court of corruption and breaking international humanitarian law.
“As his lawyer, I tell you that it is illegal to judge him without due process of a person with a mental illness. He should have had a specialist investigator who deals with mentally ill people in a suitable manner,” Zbeidat said.
In a report on December 10, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the Israeli regime is holding captive over 5000 Palestinians, including 200 children and women.
The PPS said Israel holds the Palestinian prisoners, without charges or trial, under terrible conditions, sprays them with gas and forces dozens into solitary confinement.
It added that four Palestinian prisoners lost their lives this year due to poor medical condition, saying three of them died in prison and one shortly after his release.
The society called on the international community to hold Tel Aviv accountable for its crimes against the Palestinians.(T/P04/E1)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
