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ACTION ALERT: FREE THE CHILDREN OF PALESTINE!!
December 21, 2010
According to Israeli police, 1200 Palestinian children have
been arrested, interrogated and imprisoned in the occupied city of Jerusalem
alone this year. The youngest of these children was seven-years old.
Children and teen-agers were often dragged out of their beds
in the middle of the night, taken in handcuffs for questioning, threatened,
humiliated and many were subjected to physical violence while under arrest as
part of an ongoing campaign against the children of Palestine. Since the year
2000, more than 8000 have been arrested by Israel, and reports of mistreatment
are commonplace.
Further, based on sworn affidavits collected in 2009 from 100
of these children, lawyers working in the occupied West Bank found that 69%
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. Minors were often asked to give names and incriminate friends and
relatives as a condition of their release.
Such institutionalized and systematic mistreatment of
Palestinian children by the state of Israel is a violation international law
and specifically contravenes the Convention on the Rights of the Child to which
Israel is supposedly a signatory.
ACTION
Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition calls on its
members, supporters and all people of conscience to please take a moment to
read and sign our petition at:
http://www.gopetition.com/petition/41467/sign.html
Please ask your friends and contacts to do the same.
The petition demands that President Barak Obama direct Israel
to release all Palestinian children detained in its prisons and detention
centers immediately, and to end all forms of systematic and institutionalized
abuse that it practices against the children of Palestine. What the Israeli
state is doing to Palestinian children amounts to psychological terrorism. No
person of conscience can live with this stain on their lives.
Until Return,
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: [email protected]
WWW: http://al-awda.org
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition (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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