Media Brief: Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Detention

Factsheets
April 16, 2016

This Media Brief underlines Israel’s arrest and confinement policy targeting Palestinian children, who are regularly subjected to ill-treatment, torture, physical and psychological violence during arrest, interrogation, detention and/or under home arrest. It includes two case studies one on Dima al- Wawi, 12 years-old, who is the youngest female Palestinian prisoner in Israeli prisons, and the second is on Fadi Al-Shaloudi, 13 years-old, who is currently being held in his own home in Silwan.

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