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DESCRIPTION:Please join the #nowaytotreatachild campaign co-leaders from Defense for 
 Children International - Palestine and American Friends Service Committee 
 for a 2023 Year-In-Review webinar.\n\n2023 has been a devastating year for 
 Palestinian children from Gaza to Jerusalem to Jenin. During this webinar, 
 we'll review human rights violations against Palestinian children in 2023 
 as well as advocacy efforts in motion to hold Israeli authorities and 
 forces accountable.\n\nBackground\n\nApproximately 2.9 million Palestinians 
 live in the occupied West Bank, of which around 45 percent are children 
 under the age of 18.\n\nPalestinian children in the West Bank, like adults, 
 face arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment under an Israeli military 
 detention system that denies them basic rights.\n\nSince 1967, Israel has 
 operated two separate legal systems in the same territory. In the occupied 
 West Bank, Israeli settlers are subject to the civilian and criminal legal 
 system whereas Palestinians live under military law.\n\nIsrael applies 
 civilian criminal law to Palestinian children in East Jerusalem. No Israeli 
 child comes into contact with the military courts.\n\nIsrael has the 
 dubious distinction of being the only country in the world that 
 automatically and systematically prosecutes children in military courts 
 that lack fundamental fair trial rights and protections. Israel prosecutes 
 between 500 and 700 Palestinian children in military courts each 
 year.\n\nIll-treatment in the Israeli military detention system remains 
 “widespread, systematic, and institutionalized throughout the process,” 
 according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report Children in Israeli 
 Military Detention Observations and Recommendations.\n\nChildren typically 
 arrive to interrogation bound, blindfolded, frightened, and sleep 
 deprived.\n\nChildren often give confessions after verbal abuse, threats, 
 physical and psychological violence that in some cases amounts to 
 torture.\n\nIsraeli military law provides no right to legal counsel during 
 interrogation, and Israeli military court judges seldom exclude confessions 
 obtained by coercion or torture.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/12/05/18860895.php
SUMMARY:No Way To Treat A Child Webinar
LOCATION:Zoom (Registration link is below)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/12/05/18860895.php
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