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Defense for Children International concerned by sharp increase in detention of Palestinian children
 19/03/2009

Defense for Children International - Palestine Section
March 11th, 2009

[RAMALLAH, 11 March 2009] – According to the latest figures compiled by DCI-Palestine from sources including the Israeli Prison Service (IPS), the number of Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons and detention centres inside Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory rose sharply in February, to 423 including seven girls and six children held without charge or trial in administrative detention.
This figure represents a 37.8% increase over the corresponding period in 2008.

Year/Month

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2008
327
307
325
327
337
323
324
293
304
297
327
342
2009
389
 423
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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On 6 March 2009, the President of Defence for Children International (DCI) wrote to the Israeli Minister of Justice, Daniel Friedmann, seeking an explanation for the sharp increase in the number of Palestinian children being detained by Israel and notified the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child of these developments.

In a further disturbing development, since the beginning of 2009, DCI-Palestine has observed an increase in the number of Palestinian children as young as 12, being arrested and detained for throwing stones, including throwing stones at the Wall.

A copy of DCI’s letter to the Israeli Minister of Justice can be read  here