Den 14-åriga palestinska flickan Malak al-Khatib, har blivit symbolen för de 1000-tals barn i Palestina som Israel regelbundet arresterar, fängslar och även utsätter för tortyr...
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2015-02-04 MEE and agencies
MEE and agencies
A 14-year-old schoolgirl jailed for trying to attack Israeli soldiers has become a symbol for hundreds of Palestinian children tried in Israeli military courts each year.
The two-month sentence for Malak al-Khatib, who was accused of stone-throwing and possession of a knife, has unleashed a wave of solidarity and support among Palestinians.
"My heart broke when I saw her in court, cuffed and shackled," her mother Khawla al-Khatib told AFP from her home in the town of Beitin near Ramallah.
"I brought in a coat for her to wear because it was cold, but the judge refused to let her have it," the distressed 50-year-old said.
Israeli forces arrest about 1,000 children every year in the occupied West Bank, often on charges of stone-throwing, according to rights group Defence for Children International Palestine (DCI Palestine).
But the case of Malak has brought countless media organisations flocking to her family's door and attracted more public attention than most.
The difference - she is a girl.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club estimates that 200 Palestinian minors are held in Israeli prisons, but only four are girls, and Malak is the youngest.
Amani Sarahna, spokeswoman for the Ramallah-based organisation, said it was the first time in years that four female minors were held in Israeli jails, out of the 6,500 Palestinians incarcerated.
Following Malak's arrest, the Palestinian leadership sent a letter to the UN denouncing the Israeli practice of "seizing children in the dead of night", detaining Palestinian children "for extended periods of time" and subjecting them to "psychological and physical torture".
- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jailed-schoolgirl-becomes-palestinian-symbol-625668267#sthash.XEuf9I90.dpuf
The two-month sentence for Malak al-Khatib, who was accused of stone-throwing and possession of a knife, has unleashed a wave of solidarity and support among Palestinians.
"My heart broke when I saw her in court, cuffed and shackled," her mother Khawla al-Khatib told AFP from her home in the town of Beitin near Ramallah.
"I brought in a coat for her to wear because it was cold, but the judge refused to let her have it," the distressed 50-year-old said.
Israeli forces arrest about 1,000 children every year in the occupied West Bank, often on charges of stone-throwing, according to rights group Defence for Children International Palestine (DCI Palestine).
But the case of Malak has brought countless media organisations flocking to her family's door and attracted more public attention than most.
The difference - she is a girl.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club estimates that 200 Palestinian minors are held in Israeli prisons, but only four are girls, and Malak is the youngest.
Amani Sarahna, spokeswoman for the Ramallah-based organisation, said it was the first time in years that four female minors were held in Israeli jails, out of the 6,500 Palestinians incarcerated.
Following Malak's arrest, the Palestinian leadership sent a letter to the UN denouncing the Israeli practice of "seizing children in the dead of night", detaining Palestinian children "for extended periods of time" and subjecting them to "psychological and physical torture".
Palestinian icon
A picture of Malak's face has been circulating in social media and Palestinian newspapers.- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jailed-schoolgirl-becomes-palestinian-symbol-625668267#sthash.XEuf9I90.dpuf
A 14-year-old schoolgirl jailed for trying to attack Israeli soldiers has become a symbol for hundreds of Palestinian children tried in Israeli military courts each year.
The two-month sentence for Malak al-Khatib, who was accused of stone-throwing and possession of a knife, has unleashed a wave of solidarity and support among Palestinians.
"My heart broke when I saw her in court, cuffed and shackled," her mother Khawla al-Khatib told AFP from her home in the town of Beitin near Ramallah.
"I brought in a coat for her to wear because it was cold, but the judge refused to let her have it," the distressed 50-year-old said.
- Israeli forces arrest about 1,000 children every year in the occupied West Bank, often on charges of stone-throwing, according to rights group Defence for Children International Palestine (DCI Palestine).
But the case of Malak has brought countless media organisations flocking to her family's door and attracted more public attention than most.
The difference - she is a girl.
The Palestinian Prisoners' Club estimates that 200 Palestinian minors are held in Israeli prisons, but only four are girls, and Malak is the youngest.
Amani Sarahna, spokeswoman for the Ramallah-based organisation, said it was the first time in years that four female minors were held in Israeli jails, out of the 6,500 Palestinians incarcerated.
- Following Malak's arrest, the Palestinian leadership sent a letter to the UN denouncing the Israeli practice of "seizing children in the dead of night", detaining Palestinian children "for extended periods of time" and subjecting them to "psychological and physical torture".
Palestinian icon
A picture of Malak's face has been circulating in social media and Palestinian newspapers.[...]
- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jailed-schoolgirl-becomes-palestinian-symbol-625668267
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ATTACKS in which the Israeli military deliberately targeted Palestinian homes were an "appalling hallmark" of the military offensive this summer and had the backing of top Israeli officials, an Israeli human rights organization charges in a report released Wednesday.
For its report, Black Flag: The legal and moral implications of the policy of attacking residential buildings in the Gaza Strip, summer 2014 (pdf), B’Tselem investigated 70 incidents in which at least three people were killed while inside their home during what Israel called Operation Protective Edge.
In these incidents, B’Tselem said, over 600 Palestinians were killed, 70% of whom likely too no part in fighting. They included the deaths of 93 infants and children under the age of 5, as well as 129 5- to 14-year old children, and 37 people over 60.[...]
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http://stopwar.org.uk/news/how-israel-deliberately-targeted-homes-in-gaza-killing-over-500-children
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--Israel lobbies against ICC as Gaza war crimes inquiry opens--
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RT 2015-01-18
Israeli politicians are calling on the 122 member states of the International Criminal Court to cut its funding in response to the beginning of its inquiry into possible war crimes in Gaza last year.
The ICC announced Friday it would investigate "in full independence and impartiality" crimes that may have occurred in the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza in July-August 2014.
The seven-week war killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and 70 Israelis. The Gaza Health Ministry, the UN and several human rights organizations have variously reported that 69-75 percent of the Palestinian casualties were civilians. Israeli officials said 50 percent of those killed were civilians.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the ICC decision to start an inquiry “is the height of hypocrisy and the opposite of justice."[...]
Israeli politicians are calling on the 122 member states of the International Criminal Court to cut its funding in response to the beginning of its inquiry into possible war crimes in Gaza last year.
The ICC announced Friday it would investigate "in full independence and impartiality" crimes that may have occurred in the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza in July-August 2014.
The seven-week war killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and 70 Israelis. The Gaza Health Ministry, the UN and several human rights organizations have variously reported that 69-75 percent of the Palestinian casualties were civilians. Israeli officials said 50 percent of those killed were civilians.
- The Israeli decision to lobby against the ICC came after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, after failing to secure a bid in the UN Security Council to end "Israeli occupation," requested ICC membership.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the ICC decision to start an inquiry “is the height of hypocrisy and the opposite of justice."[...]
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14-åriga Malak al-Khatib blev symbol för Palestinska barn i Israeliska fängelser
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