At the end of January, a total of 183 Palestinian children were imprisoned and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system, an increase of 18.8 percent over last month. This includes a total of 20 children between the ages of 14 and 15. Three in four Palestinian children detained in 2013 by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank endured physical violence during arrest and interrogation.

1. New year starts with 183 Palestinian kids in Israeli
military detention
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At the end of January, a total of 183 were imprisoned and prosecuted in the Israeli military court
system, an increase of 18.8 percent over last month. This includes a total of 20 between the
ages of 14 and 15.
Three in four Palestinian children detained in 2013 by the Israeli military in the occupied
endured physical violence during arrest and interrogation.
In January, Israeli soldiers detained Salah S, 16, f rom Azzun,
Qalqilya around 4:30 pm while he was with f riends near a road used
by Israeli soldiers and . Israeli soldiers held him overnight
and transf erred him to multiple locations over a 12-hour period, while
subjecting him to physical violence and ill-treatment.
Salah was previously arrested in January 2013, then 15 years old,
and spent 10 months at inside .
On January 1, Israeli f orces arrested 16 residents f rom at-Tabaqa village, west of , in the West
Bank, including ninePalestinian children, some as young as 13, on suspicion of stone throwing.
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DCI- research shows that children arrive to
Israeli interrogation centers blindfolded,
bound and sleep deprived. Unlike their
Israeli counterparts, Palestinian children
have no right to be accompanied by a parent
during an interrogation. In 96 percent of
cases documented by DCI-Palestine in 2013,
children were questioned alone and rarely
inf ormed of their rights, particularly their
right against self -incrimination.
January 2014 Detention Data
Each year approximately 500-
700 Palestinian children, some as young as 12 years, are detained and prosecuted in the Israeli
military court system.
The most common charge is f or throwing stones. Currently, 41.5 percent of Palestinian child
are detained inside Israel in violation of Article 76 of the Fourth .Below is the latest data f rom
the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) on the number of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention at
the end of each month.
Total number of Palestinian children in Israeli detention at end of each month

3. Source: Defence for Children International Palestine, Sabbah Report –
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