More than 600 Palestinian minors under house arrest in 2022

More than 600 Palestinian minors under house arrest in 2022

More than 600 Palestinian minors under house arrest in 2022

Israeli forces detain a Palestinian minor in the city of Al-Qud (Jerusalem). Photo: AFP

More than 600 Palestinian minors were placed under house arrest by Israeli courts in 2022according to data published by the Commission for Prisoner and Former Prisoner Affairs.

According to the entity, the Israeli occupation authorities resort to house arrest against children and young people in occupied East Jerusalem as a form of punishment for children under the age of 14 because Israeli law does not require them to be in prisons.

However tocurrently four children from Jerusalem under the age of 18 have been forced to leave their parents’ home and stay in a house outside their city, as another of the arbitrariness of the Zionist courts.

These events have been denounced by platforms calling for the liberation of the Palestinian people, including Palestine Today, which reported that occupying Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian teenagers in the occupied city of Jerusalem on Monday.

On December 23, during the Christmas and New Year celebrations, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the international community to break the silence and take concrete action to stop Israel’s crimes on Palestinian territory.

On December 16, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) denounced this in this vein At least 835 Palestinians remain in so-called administrative detention in Israeli jails with no proven charges or crimes.

(With information from teleSUR)