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Shackles and solitary confinement for children in Palestinian jails 

Iron shackles, abuse, isolation cells. These are the tortures suffered by Palestinian children imprisoned. This was denounced an independent report by a group of British lawyers and supported by the Foreign Ministry.

In the first study of its kind, a group of nine lawyers has investigated the abuses to which children are subjected to Palestinians arrested in Israel. This amazing report, entitled 'Children in military custody', which contains key findings on Wednesday the newspaper 'The Independent' reports that children are dragged from their beds in the middle of the night and forced to lie in front of military vehicles.

These children of the Gaza Strip are locked in a position that could be described as torture, solitary confinement and with little chance of seeing their parents. The British report also denounces mistreatment and physical abuse, and cases in which these children forced to sign statements that can not even read.

Children treated as terrorists

The team that drafted the report, led by Stephen Sedley, Judge of the British Court of Appeal said, quote, that "every Palestinian child is treated as a terrorist." These practices, explains this dramatic text, violated several articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits inhuman and degrading treatment. Also contrary to Israeli law, which states that children should be entitled to a lawyer within 48 hours and that in no case be jailed if they are under 14 years. But, in practice, hundreds of children under 12 years are incarcerated each year.

One of the authors of the research, Greg Davies, known defender of human rights, the British newspaper explained how, during a visit to an Israeli military court, in a preview, "a little boy entered the room, wearing shackles legs. "

The report, which states that these practices involve clear cases of torture, has been endorsed by the office of the British Foreign Ministry. The agency has already announced its intention to denounce these practices with the Israeli authorities.

The dramatic situation of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has been reported repeatedly. Recently, thousands of them seconded a hunger strike lasting nearly a month to demand improved conditions.