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SvennoJ on 05 April 2024
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Palestinian children speak of ordeals inside Israeli prisons

Addameer, a Palestinian prisoners rights group, says children held in Israeli prisons are subject to assault and beatings and are often deprived of adequate food, personal hygiene items and other essentials.

“Several testimonies reported that they were subjected to severe beatings during their time in prison. Statistics and documented testimonies from child detainees indicate that the majority of detained children have been subjected to one or more forms of physical and psychological torture,” according to Addameer.

Eighteen-year-old Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Nazzal, who was released in November, was seen in news reports at the time with casts on both arms. He said they were broken during abuse in prison. Speaking to Addameer, Nazzal recalled being assaulted by Israeli forces while in detention.

One of the solders “repeatedly struck me on the head, so I tried to shield myself. My hands and fingers were broken. I was bedridden for a week. Another prisoner had to feed me and help me drink,” he said.

 

Israel is eviscerating ecosystems in Gaza: Climate group

Climate Defiance, a climate activist group focused on young adults, says this could make the besieged coastal enclave “uninhabitable not just for years but for generations”. In a post on X, it says that up to 48 percent of tree cover and farmland in the strip has been torched and 23 percent of greenhouses have been destroyed in their entirety.

“This is a war crime. This is ecocide,” it says. “This is not ‘just’ about nature. This is about the food and the air and the water and the land being deprived of life. It is about a whole population being denied its sustenance.”




Israeli settlers set fire to occupied West Bank homes

Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israeli settlers burned four residential structures in the Ain al-Auja area, north of Jericho in the West Bank. Mahmoud Ghawanmeh, a Palestinian resident of the community, told Wafa that the settlers sprayed racist slogans on several buildings before setting the fires.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recorded 561 incidents of Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians between October 7 and February 20. As of January 17, settlers have killed at least eight Palestinians and injured 111, per OCHA’s database. Repeated waves of violence by settlers, often backed by the army, have led to the displacement of 1,208 Palestinians, including 586 children, across 198 households.