Approximately 300 children are among 7,000 Palestinian prisoners currently held in Israeli jails amid very difficult detention conditions, rights sources revealed, according to the PIC.
The researcher in prisoners Affairs Abdul Nasser Farwana confirmed that 300 Palestinian children and 51 women, including 11 minors, are held in Israeli prisons.
These two Palestinian children, Shady Frah & Ahmed Zatary (13yo), are entering their second year of detention in israeli jails#HappyNewYear pic.twitter.com/RoF5yNySfu
— Mohammed Kareem (@vic2pal) December 31, 2016
600 of those prisoners are held in administrative detention without charge or trial, Farwana elaborated.
The number of imprisoned Palestinian journalists has also increased to reach 21, he pointed out.
(PIC, PC, Social Media)
