The sentencing of children under the legal age of majority in regular military courts constitutes a contravention of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, which Israel ratified in 1991.
According to the Palestine branch of the organization Defense for Children International (DCI), an average of 9,000 Palestinians are prosecuted in two Israeli military courts in the West Bank each year, among them an average of 700 children, some of them as young as 12.
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Big deal - of course, there is no mention of the children being thrown in with the adults, because there are no detainment centers for the children. Outside of that, it does nothing to answer why there are so many arrests and people in general, all Palestinians, being prosecuted at aproximately a 98% guilt ratio - most taking just a few minutes. There is no judicial legitimacy or sentencing during one of the longest occupations in modern history. ZERO credibility
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