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Action Alert: Stop Israel's Abuse of Palestinian Children
September 2, 2010
According to the Palestine Section of Defense for Children
International, each year, about 700 Palestinian children from the West Bank are
prosecuted in Israeli military courts. Out of 100 sworn affidavits collected by
lawyers in 2009, 69% of the children were beaten and kicked, 49% were
threatened, 14% were held in solitary confinement, 12% were threatened with
sexual assault, including rape, and 32% were forced to sign confessions written
in Hebrew, a language they do not understand. Israel's treatment of detained
Palestinian children is considered to be torture by the United Nations under
international law.
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition calls on all
its members, supporters and people of conscience to contact the White House to
demand that the Obama administration direct the Israeli leadership, currently
in Washington DC, to immediately release and end the systematic and
institutionalized abuse of all Palestinian children in Israeli prisons in
accordance with international law. The US government, which supports Israel to
the tune of billions of taxpayer dollars a year while most ordinary Americans
are suffering in a very bad economy, is bound by its laws to cut off all aid to
Israel until it ends all of its violations of human rights and basic freedoms
in a verifiable manner.
To contact the White House, please use the online form at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Alternatively write to:
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Phone : 202-456-1414
Fax: 202-456-2461
Letters in the US may be faxed online via:
http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html
To contact your Representatives and Senators, go to:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt?command=congdir
House members can be reached through the Capitol switchboard
toll free at:
1-877-331-2000
Please cc your correspondence to ale...@al-awda.org
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013, USA
Tel: 760-918-9441
Fax: 760-918-9442
E-mail: i...@al-awda.org
WWW: http://www.al-awda.org
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (PRRC) is
the largest network of grassroots activists and students dedicated to education
and advocacy for the restoration of Palestinian human, national, legal,
political and historical rights in full with particular emphasis on the right
of Palestinians to return to their homes and lands of origin from which they
have been dispossessed since 1948. PRRC is a not for profit tax-exempt
educational and charitable 501(c)(3) organization as defined by the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) of the United States of America. Under IRS guidelines,
your donations to PRRC are tax-deductible. To donate, go to
http://www.al-awda.org/donate.html and follow the instructions. To become a
member, go to http://www.al-awda.org/membership.html
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