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| Israeli soldiers stand guard over Palestinian children arrested in the West Bank city of Hebron. Photograph: Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA |
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A belief that every Palestinian child is a potential terrorist may be
leading to a "spiral of injustice" and breaches of international law in
Israel's
treatment of child detainees in military custody, a delegation of
eminent British lawyers has concluded in an independent report backed by
the Foreign Office.The nine-strong delegation, led by the former high court judge Sir Stephen Sedley and including the UK's former attorney-general Lady Scotland, found that "undisputed facts" pointed to at least six violations of the UN convention on the rights of the child, to which Israel is a signatory. It was also in breach of the fourth Geneva convention in transferring child detainees from the West Bank to Israeli prisons, the delegation said.
Its report, Children in Military Custody, released on Tuesday, was based on a visit to Israel and the West Bank last September funded and facilitated by the Foreign Office and...READ MORE
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