Children are usually arrested from their beds. Heavily armed Israeli soldiers arrest them in violent circumstances during night raids on their family homes. The children are woken up by the sound of Israeli soldiers banging on the front door before a family member opens the door or the soldiers force their way in, directly storming the home.” The Militaries gather everybody out of the house, and the entire home will be ransacked upside down. The childrens parents are never informed of the accusations, the soldiers just take the child, no matter of the age (5 year age is not unusual !!!) his hands tied with plastic cords behind his back, and it will be blindfolded led to a military vehicle.” On average, children spend 10 days in solitary confinement, but also are held for up to 29 days in isolation. Children described being locked in a small, windowless cell lit 24 hours a day by a dim bulb. There they sleep on a concrete bed, on the floor, or on a thin mattress described as “dirty” and “foul smelling.” Or locked in outdoor cages during rain and cold, also severe winter storms. The children are subjected to prolonged interrogations, abuse and violence amounting to torture. The interrogation techniques are generally mentally and physically coercive, threats and physical violence with a clear purpose of obtaining a confession. Shouting and intimidation are regularly used to elicit confessions, incriminating statements, and information on neighbors or family members.” During interrogations, “children report being forced to sit in a low metal chair secured to the floor with their hands and feet cuffed to the chair, often for several hours.” In 31 out of 40 cases, children reported being subjected to such “position abuse,” the most frequent form being that the child is shackled to a chair in a painful position for long periods of time. falastinews/2014/11/16/watch-israel-wins-torture-children-award/
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 12:31:55 +0000
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