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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Under Occupation: A Report on the West Bank http://www.alzaytouna.net/arabic/?c=1519&a=138860

  Approximately 700 Palestinian children are prosecuted every year in Israeli military courts. Since 2000, more than 7,000 children have been detained and at the end of January 2011, 222 Palestinian children were being held in Israeli jails. Children are often arrested in early morning raids, during which time they are hooded, shackled and regularly subjected to abuse. Interrogations are not recorded and generally take place without the presence of a lawyer or a parent

The number of settlers inside the West Bank has now surpassed 500,000, spread out across 149 settlements and 100 so-called unauthorised outposts.Four of these settlements are now cities and all are explicitly illegal under international law. In September 2010, despite the resumption of talks between the Israeli and palestinian leaderships, settlement construction resumed following the end of a moratorium. Construction of the separation wall also continues. The creation of ‘enclaves’ has led towns, villages and in some cases single houses to be completely cut off from their wider surroundings. In al-Walajeh for example, a village west of Bethlehem, the wall snakes and twists its way 360 degrees around the entire village. Once construction is complete the village will be completely encircled.

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