’Israel’ Tortures Palestinian Children by Keeping them in Outdoor Cages for Months!

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A so-called "Israeli" organization confirmed that the Zionist entity continues to torturing Palestinian children as it revealed some were kept for months in outdoor cages during winter.

The so-called Public Committee Against Torture in "Israel" (PCATI) published a report which said children were subjected to "public caging", threats and acts of sexual violence and military trials without representation.

It came as the government's Public Petitions Committee held a hearing to discuss the issue, which the PCATI said must be addressed with a change to the "Israeli" law.

The s-called "Public Defender's Office" [PDO] recently released details of one particularly shocking visit by its lawyers to a detention facility."

During our visit, attorneys met detainees who described to them a shocking picture: in the middle of the night dozens of detainees were transferred to the external iron cages built outside the IPS transition facility in Ramla," the PDO wrote on its website.
"It turns out that this procedure, under which prisoners waited outside in cages, lasted for several months, and was verified by other officials."

The report argued: "Torture is a means of attacking an individual's fundamental modes of psychological and social functioning" as described in the Istanbul Protocol. Furthermore, "torture can impact a child directly or indirectly. The impact can be due to the child's having been tortured or detained, the torture of parents or close family members or witnessing torture and violence."

It said the incident in Ramla was just one example of a broad range of abuses being suffered.

The PCATI said: "The majority of Palestinian child detainees are charged with throwing stones, and 74 per cent experience physical violence during arrest, transfer or interrogation."
It said further added that "Israel" is the only entity to systematically prosecute children in its military courts, and added that "no "Israeli" children come into contact with the military court system".

Source: News agencies, Edited by website team