Child Prisoners Quotes

“And under international law, there is a word for legal dominance based on ethnicity, religion, or race—a word that Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and even Israel's own leading human rights group, B'Tselem, say applies to Israel. It is not "self-determination." It is "apartheid." Apartheid is violent. Because Palestinians in Gaza live under the control of a state that is not accountable to them - whose citizenship they cannot attain and whose leaders they cannot choose - most have spent the bulk of their lives under blockade, unable to leave a territory less than half the size of New York City that Human Rights Watch calls an "open-air prison." Because Palestinians in the West Bank live under the control of a state that is not accountable to them, Israeli authorities routinely jail their children. Between 2000 and 2023, Israel detained more than 13,000 Palestinian children, according to estimates by Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP). Of the 766 West Bank children that DCIP interviewed, it found that 97 percent had been interrogated without a family member present, 75 percent had suffered physical violence, and 23 percent had been held for at least two days in solitary confinement.”
― Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning