by Gouda » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:01 pm
I did not find anything either. There are older reports out there with such findings; for example, a Feb. 2005 <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://domino.un.org/unispal.NSF/22f431edb91c6f548525678a0051be1d/98d9df049e00df3185256fb20059e3e6!OpenDocument">Report</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> put out by the UN Economic and Social Council's Commission on Human Rights titled, INTEGRATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN has this: <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>38. A 2001 United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM) study 20 revealed that Palestinian women may be arrested at their homes, in the middle of the night, by a group of armed soldiers or at a checkpoint on their way to or from school/work and detained indefinitely without charge or trial. 21 According to the study, detainees are held in solitary confinement, forced to give birth in prison cells, tortured, verbally and sexually abused and threatened. Former female detainees, whom I met, confirmed these reports and referred to the Russian Compound police detention centre in West Jerusalem, where they were held in solitary confinement and tortured during interrogation. 22<br><br>39. Women are also subjected to beatings and humiliation during the arrest or detention of their family members. Entire families may be arrested when IDF fails to find a suspected "terrorist". Palestinian women are reportedly detained in order to put pressure on relatives who may be wanted by Israel or already under interrogation. 23 Women are then held incommunicado or in administrative detention in Israeli military prisons for indefinite periods of time, serving as "bait" to control the actions of suspects. This practice denies the detainee the right to access to counsel, fair trial and even to know the alleged offence of which they are accused.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> The <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.womenwarpeace.org/opt/opt.htm#other">UNIFEM</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> website has related info, but they do not seem to update regularly. <br><br>Regular IDF atrocity updates put out <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/HMYT-6MML2J?OpenDocument&rc=3&cc=pse">here</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> by OCHA. <br><br>And in looking around, I also came across <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://wwwnotes.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/770663b27765d04249257126000900e7?OpenDocument">this</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->: <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Over 200 Palestinian children arrested in two months</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>By DCI/PS<br><br>Israeli occupation forces are arresting scores of Palestinian children each week, bringing the number of juveniles currently held in appalling conditions in Israeli detention centres and prisons to new record levels.<br><br>Information gathered by the DCI/PS Research & Information and Legal Units shows that since the start of 2006 over 230 Palestinian children have been arrested, with the Israeli army appearing to target in particular youths from the Bethlehem Nablus and Jenin areas of the West Bank. The scale of arrests over the past two months brings the number of Palestinian children in Israeli custody to almost 400. This represents a significant increase on the already-inexcusably high numbers of recent years and marks a further indication of the scant regard Israeli pays to Palestinian children's rights and to international legal instruments. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
