How are Palestinian children treated in Israeli prisons?
The issue of child detainees and prisoners is perhaps the most striking example of Israel’s policy of arbitrary imprisonment. Approximately 2,000 Palestinian children were arrested and detained from September 2000 to the end of June 2003.12 Children as young as 13 are held in Israeli prisons and are housed with the adult prisoner population. Children aged 13 and 14 constitute approximately ten percent of all child detainees.
