© Jaafar Ashtyeh/AFP/Getty ImagesIsraeli security forces look at a Palestinian boy with a national flag.
According to Safa news agency, most of the Palestinian minors arrested appeared in Ofer military court and were ordered to pay high fines, Al-Ashqar said, adding to the financial burdens experienced by families.
Al-Ashqar said that the Israeli courts impose fines on Palestinian children for all alleged aggressions including stone throwing or being spotted near an Israeli settlement or military checkpoint.
He called for the regional and international rights groups to help end Israel's detention of Palestinian minors and stop the system of "blackmailing" their families by forcing them to pay high fines for the release of their children.
Israel is the only country in the world that automatically prosecutes children in military courts that lack fundamental fair rights and guarantees.
The systematic ill treatment and torture of Palestinian children has been widely documented in recent years, with Amnesty International finding that Israeli forces had "tortured and otherwise ill-treated Palestinian detainees, including children, particularly during arrest and interrogation", with methods including "beating with batons, slapping, throttling, prolonged shackling, stress positions, sleep deprivation and threats."
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ARGH!
R.C.
P.s., POG: dead on point re AI. RC
be the "Achilles Heel" of the occupying tormentor, this is the language
and action they understand, because they invented it. This is what you
must do now, to cease the endless procrastination.
Palestinians! Where ever you are, Rise up!, take up your beds, and go
back to your Homelands, gather Peacefully at your borders until
assembled in great numbers,then will be the time to march, in multitude,
back into your stolen homelands. If you are waiting for an invitation,
you will wait in vain, the last seventy years has demonstrated that, if
nothing else. Only you have the "Right" to do this, we cannot do it for
you; but we know, Justice loving Peoples around the World will support
you. You must put aside all concerns related to injury and death; look
back over the last seventy years! How many have already died and
suffered? That will continue into the future, whilst you all sit meekly
on your hands. Follow this advice, and Humanitarians the World over,
will come to your aid in great numbers. There can be no "Fault" in this
crusade back to your Homelands, you have "All" rights on your side. The
only "Olive Branch" coming from your tormentors, are the ones left
strewn on your lands, uprooted by your single-minded implacable
misguided tormentors.You, O' Palestinians must rise and demonstrate your
own "Single Minded", resolute,Peaceful determination. Your tormentor
knows, as long as you keep waiting, doing nothing, then that will be the
eventual outcome for you, "Nothing". You will simply disappear; You must
decide; Is your Homeland worth the effort, or not?
By terrorism, thou shall do politics.