ISRAEL HAS ARRESTED 44 PALESTINIANS EVERY DAY FOR 48 YEARS
(5 PER DAY ARE CHILDREN)
OCTOBER 27, 2015.
by DM.Walking.
In late 2014 the top brass of the British army were in serious disagreement with each other over the purpose of why British troops were sent to fight in Afghanistan and indeed of the whole enterprise.
THE SAME CAN BE SAID OF IRAQ.
The purpose of the Chilcot Inquiry was to ask exactly the same question...
HOW AND WHY, DID BRITAIN GO TO WAR?
In both these conflicts there is a common denominator, lack of clarity as to why Britain waged war on largely defenceless civilians. Back in March this year, the Washington DC based Physicians for Social Responsibility, released a landmarkstudy concluding that the death toll from ten years of the 'War on-Terror' since the 911 attacks, where the victim toll was two thousand, nine hundred and seventy seven, could be as high as two million. Yet the international community has clarity on one Middle Eastern country.
Since 1948, Israel has engaged in thirteen conflicts against neighbouring countries, often involving multiple adversaries such as Egypt five times, Iraq three times, Jordan twice, Syria four times, Lebanon twice also Algeria, Morocco, Kuwait and Tunisia.
In 1948, Israel killed nearly twenty thousand Palestinians and several thousand Arab soldiers.
Thousands more were killed in
1956 and 1957.
In 1973 fifteen thousand Egyptians, six thousand Jordanians and one thousand Syrians were killed and more than half a million Palestinians were displaced.
In 1978 one thousand two hundred Lebanese and Palestinians were killed by the Israeli’s.
Israel and 'pro-Israel-rightist' and 'Christian-factions' massacred seventeen thousand eight hundred and twenty five Arabs under the leadership of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who was famous for saying...
"When I see dead Palestinians,
while I am on the tank,
I feel so happy".
For three days, Muslim Arabs were
murdered, raped and brutally
executed.
One thousand four hundred and forty Palestinians were murdered over two days in 2009 after intensive attacks.
'Operation-Protective-Edge' last summer brought the graphic details to the world when another 2100 Palestinians were killed.
Civilians took the full force of Israel’s aggression with one thousand four hundred and sixty two innocents killed.
FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE WERE CHILDREN.
In that time, Israel, too, has seen around ten thousand nine hundred soldiers and three thousand three hundred and forty nine civilians killed by conflict.
Israel’s continued aggression towards the Palestinians leaves over four million deprived of all human rights listed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Almost one million Palestinian children are confined without charge or trial, to what the Catholic Church and many others have described as, Israel’s Gaza Concentration Camp for the 'crime' of being Indigenous Palestinians living in a tiny, remorselessly bombed patch of Palestine.
Since June 1967, 'Military-Court-Watch' stated in it’s 2015 report that, it is conservatively estimated that at least seven hundred and sixty thousand Palestinian men, women and children, or nearly sixteen thousand per year, have been arrested and detained by the Israeli military. The Israeli military authorities themselves have confirmed that out of approximately eight thousand Palestinians detained for alleged 'security-offences' in the single year of 2013, one thousand and four were minors below the age of 18, representing 12.5% of the total.
As defined by the United Nations Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, (the Convention), during the past 48 years, reports of 'ill-treatment' within Israel’s military detention system have been commonplace. Concerns regarding these allegations and the application of military law in the West Bank have been raised by multiple institutions and bodies in recent years, including,
The US State Department,
governments of
The UK,
Netherlands,
Slovenia,
Ireland,
The UN Secretary General,
The UN Human Rights Committee,
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child,
The UN Committee against Torture,
as well as numerous international
and local rights organisations.
Data provided by the Israeli military and the UN has revealed that since martial law was imposed on the occupied West Bank in 1967, around ninety five thousand Palestinian children have been arrested by Israel, an average of more than five children per day. Around two thirds of them or, almost sixty thousand children are believed to have been subjected to some form of physical abuse whilst in detention.
The details were revealed in a report, submitted by rights group 'Military-Court-Watch, to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Over 300 pages of evidence relating to the treatment of Palestinian children held in Israeli military detention were included in the report. It focused on evidence that included the details of two hundred children arrested by the Israeli military in the West Bank between January 2013 and May this year. This was also confirmed in an investigation by UNICEF that stated,
"The ill-treatment of children, who come in contact with the military detention system, appears to be widespread, systematic and institutionalised".
The UNICEF report went further to say,
"It is understood, that in no other country are children systematically tried by juvenile military courts that, by definition, fall short of providing the necessary guarantees to ensure respect for their rights".
"According to the rights group, this finding is based on recent evidence, showing that intimidation, threats, verbal abuse, physical violence and the denial of basic legal rights are still commonplace within the system.
Based on the evidence, the submission also drew a link between this industrial scale abuse and the maintenance of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.”
It concluded that in order to enable three hundred and seventy thousand Israeli settlers to live in the West Bank in violation of international law without serious interference, the military is required to adopt a strategy of mass intimidation and collective punishment.
All children prosecuted for offences they have allegedly committed, should be treated in accordance with international juvenile justice standards, which provide them with special protection, because they are children. Most of these protections are enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
These are not provided to the Palestinian children who are systematically kidnapped, illegally detained and placed in a system that
abuses them all, one way or another.
In reality, only three countries within the 193 countries represented in the United Nations have not ratified this Convention...
The United States,
(because some states wish to retain the right to execute children),
Somalia and South Sudan.
BUT ISRAEL IS A SIGNATORY.
During the previous two years there has been a significant level of official Israeli activity in response to UNICEF reports, including an ongoing dialogue process, amendments to the military law and the
're-issuance' of standard operating military procedures.
HOWEVER, IN FEBRUARY 2015,
Reports of alleged 'ill-treatment' of children during arrest, transfer interrogation and detention have not significantly decreased in the last two years.
In the meantime, the international community and especially that of the United Nations,stands idle, knowing that Israel is accused of abducting, kidnapping or arresting another five children each and every day,then abusing them at an appalling rate by one of its own member states. What does that say about it as an organisation.
PERHAPS IT SAYS THEY DON'T CARE.
In six out of twelve country studies on sexual exploitation of children in situations of armed conflict, the arrival of peacekeeping troops has been associated with a rapid rise in child prostitution, particularly with UN peacekeepers.
Prize winning journalist and director of documentaries, centred around 'Human-Rights-abuse', observed...
"The issue with the UN is that peacekeeping operations unfortunately seem to be doing the same thing that other militaries do. Sexual exploitation of children. Even the guardians have to be guarded".
Sahgal is right.
Such is the focus on the UN and its track record of peacekeeping and abuse of minors that just a few days ago, Fox News ran with the headline...
Where a culture of impunity
that the United Nation’s
own experts have said,
"STILL PERMEATES
THE FAR FLUNG PEACEKEEPER
OPERATIONS".
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