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Israeli Soldiers Sexually Abuse Palestinian Children
On September 10, Israel’s YnetNews.com headlined, “IDF sexually abused Palestinian children,” headlining:

“Damning (September 9) CNN report cites uncorroborated sexual abuse charges of Palestinian children detained by IDF.” Military officials refused to “respond to abuse charges as no details (were) provided,” a spokesman saying “We cannot address general claims on the subject in the absence of a specific complaint.”

CNN’s report “featured an unidentified Palestinian boy claiming that IDF forces attempted to insert an object into his rectum,” and that dozens of officers present stood around laughing while it happened.

The network cited Defence of Children International (DCI) as its source, an independent NGO involved in promoting and protecting children’s rights globally for over 30 years, founded on the date the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) passed 10 years later.

In May 2010, it asked the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to investigate 14 cases of sexual assault or threatened assault it uncovered – committed by Israeli soldiers, interrogators, and police from January 2009 – April 2010. The abused children were from 13 – 16 years old, detained for offenses like stone-throwing harming no one.

DCI-Palestine expressed alarm about sworn affidavits children provided, explaining instances of sexual assault or threatened assault to obtain confessions. In 2009 alone, DCI reviewed 100 sworn affidavits attesting to the following:

– 97% of children said their hands were tied during interrogations;
– 92% said they were blindfolded or hooded;
– 81% said forced confessions were made;
– 69% said they were beaten or kicked;
– 65% said they were arrested from midnight to 4AM;
– 50% said they were verbally abused;
– 49% cited threats or inducements;
– 32% were forced to sign confessions in Hebrew they didn’t understand;
– 26% cited painful position abuse;
– 14% were in solitary confinement;
– 12% were threatened with sexual assault; and
– 4%, in fact, were sexually assaulted.

It included grabbing boys by the testicles until they confessed, and threatening others as young as 13 with rape unless they admitted to “throwing stones at Israeli settler vehicles in the occupied West Bank.”

DCI suspects these figures “may understate the extent of the problem,” a conclusion substantiated in an earlier article titled “Palestinian Children Under Occupation,” accessed through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/07/palestinian-children-under-occupation.html

In its April 2008 report, the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said over 7,000 children had been arrested since September 2000, the start of the second Intifada. About 360 were still held, some as young as 10, treated as harshly as adults, in violation of international law requiring special treatment for children.

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