In statements to the Maan news agency, the prison specialist said that this number represented 20 percent of all detainees over the past seven years.
Farwana questioned the increase in crimes against children and young people, including beating and shooting at them.
“This behavior is a blatant violation of all international agreements and norms,” he said.
The expert highlighted that the Tel Aviv authorities are expanding their house arrest strategy, particularly against children in Jerusalem, who he warned are turning hundreds of homes into prisons for young children.
Palestinian Social Development Minister Ahmed Majdalani last week condemned the murder of seven-year-old Rayan Suleiman by Israeli soldiers in a West Bank town, an act he saw as a new war crime.
The Israeli occupation’s continued acts of violence against Palestinian children, including deliberate killing, persecution, intimidation and injury, are war crimes that cannot be tolerated, the official stressed in a statement.
Earlier this year, the Israeli human rights organization HaMoked submitted a petition to the Supreme Court against the army’s nighttime arrests of Palestinian minors.
The NGO denounced that the nighttime arrests of these people in the occupied West Bank was a very common practice, which it stressed violated international standards.
In the Palestinian Territories, 2.1 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, including 934,000 children, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned last December.
For its part, the organization Save the Children denounced the existence of physical and verbal violence, threats and isolation in prisons.
A survey by the facility found that 80 percent of the detained minors suffered beatings, verbal abuse and strip searches, while 90 percent complained of a lack of adequate medical care.
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