Palestinian children in Israeli detention
5 February 2014, CREA Amsterdam
Presentation and discussion with Salwa Duaibis: head of the international advocacy programme at the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling and Gerard Horton: Lawyer and co-founder of Military Court Watch.
Since 1967, Palestinian children as young as 12 years have been prosecuted in Israeli military courts and imprisoned inside Israel. These children are generally arrested in the middle of the night by heavily armed soldiers and taken, bound and blindfolded, to interrogation and detention centres, usually located inside settlements. Reports of ill-treatment during arrest, transfer and interrogation are common place, leading to the provision of confessions and conviction by military court in the overwhelming majority of cases. Gerard Horton and Salwa Duaibis will give an overview of the situation children face in the Israeli military courts, consider what the underlying purpose of the system might be and will conclude by considering just some of the options available to those wishing to provide a defence to children in the system. And shed light on the impact of repeated night raids and child arrests on women and families living in villages near settlements.
The event is organized by gate48 – platform for critical Israelis in the Netherlands, Palestine Link, and A Different Jewish voice.