423 Palestinian kids suffering in Israeli jails...

Palestinian Minister of Social Affairs Majidah Al-Masri said on Thursday that 423 Palestinian children are currently living in what she described as “difficult and painful circumstances” in Israeli prisons.

Accusing Israeli jailers of committing acts of psychological abuse and molestation, Al-Masri said that in addition to the strife of the children of Gaza, “the children in the West Bank are deprived from having a safe life due to the Israeli policy of uprooting and Judaization.”

Her remarks came during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child that prohibits the kind of punitive treatment Israelis have been accused of by human rights groups. More...

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