An international children’s rights charity has said it has evidence that
Palestinian children held in Israeli custody have been subjected to
sexual abuse in an effort to extract confessions from them.
The Geneva-based Defence for Children International (DCI) has
collected 100 sworn affadavits from Palestinian children who said they
were mistreated by their Israeli captors.
Fourteen of the statements say they were sexually abused or threatened with sexual assault to pressure them into confessions.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent in the West Bank, Nour Odeh, met one of
the children, identified only as “N”, who said he suffered sexual abuse
at the hands of his interrogators.
