Report out of the u. K. Warns that Nuclear Weapon systems around the world are becoming more vulnerable to hacking attacks by rival states or hostile groups those are the headlines the street as thousands of seek refuge in bangladesh a new armed group is taking shape fighting the government. Because they refuse to give us our basic rights as citizens for the first time a member of the arcana. Talks to aljazeera at this time. Ok and knowing the strain we are live on how to. Today why are so many palestinian minors imprisoned in israel and how are they treated take a look at this video from our colleagues. That it didnt i didnt like it but i guess i have to the markets to. The sixteen Year Old Girl that you saw there i had to mimi has captured International Attention the happy in protest calling for her release both in palestine and in cities across the world including london and washington d. C. It is read that the arrest of a palestinian minor gets notice like this many palestinian activists are pointing out that there are hundreds of i had to mimis according to official israeli figures three hundred and thirteen palestinian minors are currently in prison there and since the year two thousand at least eight thousand palestinian minors have been detained and prosecuted thats according to Advocacy Group defense for Children International powers time during the strain to help us discuss this we have brad Parker International advocacy officer stuff attorney at defense for Children International palestine who has santa is a journalist and activist based in East Jerusalem and altimimi is an activist and cousin of a head to mimi and in the u. S. State of indiana yes and that bo is a student at activist originally from. In the occupied west bank its good to have you here. Everybody im fortunate under difficult circumstances i want to show our audience now this free. Social Media Campaign im just going to go for people here somehow connected with a head story supported her story and your family why do you think it made International Headlines. Yes i doubt it yet. I had to use a. Girl shes living. In just this living. One of the reasons. She. Winced she was very small. And we have all the good old. Things its all. Right you know the year this is. Like its. Like. What. We. Really. Or even the show would do im just looking at your twitter thread here and has a thread here it says some of the forgotten teenage palestinian girls currently held in Israeli Occupation jails theyre not activists and dont appeal to white audience their children who lose their best years of elyse behind bars so while the International Headlines are full of a head to mimi there are so many other youngsters who are also in similar predicaments can you tell us one of their stories. Yes so one of them is and i want to know how it is that. If you g. Cap she was with her cousin hetty the how they went to jerusalem they were carrying scissors headiness brother was killed by Israeli Occupation forces after spending months in coma so he didnt know he had both school and its team he was fourteen they were carrying the sister they use in their arts. They were suspected of trying to carry out and that tack against soldiers in jerusalem both of them were shot near a hand so her fourteen year old cousin and friend had been being killed in front of their eyes extrajudicial be executed right in your hand herself the errors that and immediately taken to hospital and then to prison your hand wasnt just sixteen she had seen much of her best friend being killed in front of their eyes and then immediately herself and her hand was sent to thirteen years and the house in jail that were talking about a sixteen year old a school an Excellent High School who would be sentenced to thirteen years and six months and prison and just last ogust your hand was one of that lucky safe we can say like that thats why i was allowed to cross or to study her till he matriculation exams inside caves and she passed it on he exams with excellent results your hand is still injured by the way in prison but shes Still Dreaming of becoming a lawyer with her when its released she will be more than thirty years old which means that she will have lost her child who would end the best years of her you with inside prison where shes hardly struggling to recover from the film up to sing hi friend another one of them is a key when i was just fourteen when she was every step in the mess. Again he was accused of trying to carry out an attack and we are talking about many of them have been every october twenty fifth the majority of them were suspected of carrying out attacks usually in this attempted attacks that most of these attacks dont even take place and no one is injured but hes received incredibly high sentences many of them dont have good lawyers to represent them so this is why they received my sentences and obviously even those who are pretty cute did in front off socalled civilian courts they dont count in the Justice System because youve got this whether were talking about military justice or criminal or. Civilian just as there is for palestinians there is grossly scarcely any justice and the look theres so much to talk about take a pause for a moment so we can get some of the Online Community in the conversation as well and so were listening to your stories i want to bring up some of the commentary the feedback we got this is just a handful of people and rattle actually direct this over to you a couple of people have this point of view this is steven on facebook he says if a person or juvenile throws a rock at the police here in the u. S. They would be arrested and occasionally even shot by police so israel has been normal and even mild in their response to stone throwing another person writes in this is jean on twitter she probably meaning to me me shouldnt have physically attacked soldiers and in bed to push her propaganda the tension is not meant to be what would you say to people who have this criticism so regardless of guilt or Innocence International law set specific norms for how to treat juveniles that are in conflict with the law you know no matter who you are you have the right to be free from torture or ill treatment anything that could be you know. Treatment or punishment. There is basic due process protections under International Law with the right to. An attorney the right to be free from torture. The right to know the charges against you when it comes to children there are specific special protections like detention must be used as a last resort and for the shortest possible period of time for that child and the child the main consideration should be the best interest of the child so what we see in the Israeli Military detention system is that really israel is unique in the prosecution of palestinian children in the military courts because its automatic systematic and by default theyre charged in a military court which inherent in military courts which is the case in the Israeli Military detention system they lack basic fair trial protections so for example under Israeli Military there is no right to an attorney during interrogation thats a pretty fundamental right that we take for granted in most jurisdictions throughout the world so you see these these basic protections that just dont exist you know added to the fact that. Three three out of four kids are arrested by Israeli Forces from the west Bank Experience some form of physical violence following arrest right so what weve seen defense for children through the legal representation that we provide is that physical violence the treatment the rights and the kids face that is widespread systematic and institutionalized throughout the system so in many ways the odds case is a typical case in what children face when arrested by Israeli Forces i think the unique thing is that she comes from a high profile family she has a high profile herself so its driven a bit of the tension and shine the light on the broader issues the palestinian children under you know plus years of occupation yes i dont have want to say you know i dont want to go back to the tweet regarding to me i think one of the main reasons. This story about kind of. We need to keep in mind that shes blonde lets say a white looking girl ok and it is appealing to a lot of people in the United States and europe and in different parts of the world it was important for the israeli army apparently to cover its face if youve seen the video when she while she was arguing arrested after midnight that her face was covered so the the image of i had this innocent while a blond girl was not really something that apparently israel wanted to wanted to show and i want to again say that the story by her it is just an example of hundreds probably thousands of stories and i see one of the pictures of the serial is for. Shes the one of the girl who was led by two israeli two Israeli Soldiers from my town of beit omar and she she was arrested in front of her school down this is demand and she was arrested in front of her school shes my sisters friend and i know her and they know exactly that there is no reason at all to force him out to be arrested the. The main the main philosophy i guess or the main reasons would really drive these really army to arrest palestinian children is a. Systematic and planned way to destroy the Palestinian Society by taking these children away from their families and then just putting them in prisons not allowing them for education and family visits or basic human rights i mean at the end of the day they are children thats Something Else to deal with but even as a humans theyre denied a lot of access to their basic human rights. As all and i put this to you because we are asking straining ami can you be on this program we want to understand what is going on here why would you put my hands in detention. This is what the israeli army said to us they said that the i. D. F. And additional Security Forces acting on order to maintain security and stability day and somalia unfortunately in recent years and many of my discipline involved in violent incidents including acts of terror. Offenses so again that breaking the law defense reason. If i could only in sorry. I mean what we see from the cases that we represent is that its really not about guilt or innocence its not about Holding Children accountable for specific conduct i think generally the military detention system does work to control Palestinian Society so when we talk about military courts often people have the sense that if youre talking about a court theres some form of justice thats administered there the military court system is couldnt be further from justice really the goal is to arrest illtreat you know five hundred to seven hundred palestinian kids each year run them through this military court system where the overwhelming majority of these kids plead guilty because its the fastest way to get them out of that situ situation where pretrial detention is the norm right there theyre looking even a child facing one stone throwing charge which throwing stones is a specific offense under military law the majority of children are charged with throwing stones they may spend anywhere from three months to twelve months in detention for that specific charge and then when theyre released theres usually a fine that could be one hundred dollars to three thousand dollars and then also a suspended sentence probationary period essentially that would be three five years if they are charged the same offense again in that period they automatically serve you know whatever the specific charge or the sentence would be so if youre a fifteen year old child in the west bank youre arrested charged a military court and you have a five five year spend it sentence that carries you pastor eighteenth birthday in the us for example youd have the right to have that expunged have a clean slate these these arrest these detentions you know even if its for a period of several weeks it stays with you. For your life it doesnt disappear you are talking about the effects on the person our community had a lot of questions on the effects on the family the Greater Family and what this does to them and ill give this to you a couple of tweets this is jennifer she says where are the children held in detention do they receive family visits another person this is lawrence on twitter and he wants to know how long the parents travel to see their kids in prison or in detention have you been able to see ahead and what is that process even like for the families who want to. I would have to have been to feel because i spent last weekend. When this big. But for other children. When they are. They have to wait to see mom until the release of what it is that with their families to visit them you think this month doesnt match. The mine. They only the families only see them for. Like. Doing the royals which is for five minutes ten minutes maximum. Then. When they want to visit them when they have. Them all that is really present mind. Is looking inside if you abide forty eight which is illegal because according. To International Law all the prison supposed to be in the queue by tourists not in. This by disagree since and illegal but the family does they have to leave their houses at the three in the morning they will go so as to be able to visit their. Tongues for forty five minutes and sometimes they are as nice or even one in the mornings and a big actually take them twenty four hours just. To see the. Signs and forty five minutes most of the time. That is the bit on inside the jail they are denied. Or sometimes for security reasons sometimes. They. Every time with the kids and so all this time. Yes of the job you see him and then he was in his car when you began to shoot. And was is in there still fifty percent of the will in on fire and. Also it was done so when asked if money whenever son was is given us all wanted to visit. After he was nearly didnt leave the room they denied his instead heat and forced him to go back so this is also another bunch meant for the veterans or for the families of the vote is enough and you can imagine how this is again a closed. Children and the mind that is when they are withing their families or the months or four months without seeing them and by the end they are in study for the cute or they may be going with. The i know that think is a good inside deal that it is. Nothing if you can call it everything but most food and bullets to me and they have the ways of food if. The bridge is in. Good which is very expensive its nearly since time with the price of the present and most of these is visually the mind while it was and. Then they were since mine are. Six of them they couldnt have money from their families for the. Resentment when they want to buy i think so as a prison like. Or. As an adult prison i would have to box of their money or. Which is only. What the whole. You want. Then you have. To give someone money or. Mind. You know youve given us so much more insight into we often see pictures like this one have a look here this one came from your bride and one of your attorneys is representing this young man here what happens after this moment you just really unpack that for us again the israeli army told us that the Legal Proceedings involving minus takes into account that age requires that interrogations are carried out only by train youth investigators because the mind of the right for a parent to be present during the investigation that ensures that mine is only stand trial before a specially appointed youth court that is what they said in their statement to us medicare thats for their community is not so convinced this is john and they spoke who raises a point that you raised earlier about the spin disproportionate Israeli Settlers throwing stones receive slaps on the wrists if they are punished at all while sitting in face prison International Law supports resistance against armed occupation which would include stone throwing but i want to pivot just a little bit to this tweet we got from red whos asking a question about the facts physical or mental he says what type of physical evidence exists to support torture during detention obviously psychological scars dont show as easily and its relatively easy to ensure no child the scene until physical evidence is gone you want to talk about one. Absolutely. I have too many examples to use from from my own my own experience growing up and based on my own seeing most of my cousins and most of my phones being detained in the picture of the young kid the kid who was arrested by twenty thirty three soldiers shows some physical evidence and its been on his face that he was tortured in the process. I think that the. One of the stories of my cousins my cousin was transferred to come it sore and in the process he was beaten up in the in the jeep so and another cousin while they were taking him to the Interrogation Center he was also being kicked by the difference alters at the same time and the same thing with the sort of my father who. Had to go through that to see the physical cues for more than ten minutes during the transfer process so. Going back to the i. D. F. The israeli army comment the trained investigators are. Not sure if theyre really trained at all or maybe their training is to make sure the palestinian children sign papers they dont understand or just say that i threw one stone or two stones or whatever this is. From from the work of our lawyers in the military courts in working on these cases i mean what we see is that there are legal adjustments and amendments made to the military law that would you know sort of go in line with what the Israeli Military statement suggests but in practice there is no right to a lawyer during interrogation in ninety seven percent of cases that we document kids dont have a parent present right parents or even if theyre accompanied a child or followed the child to the Interrogation Center if theyre able to know where their child been taken theyre not allowed in or are being been able to sit in that interrogation are these proceedings happening in arabic so that the military Court Proceedings are all in hebrew or the arabic translation thats thats quite rough usually based on the observations that ive had been sitting in the courts in the interrogations are you know this is another disparity under the military law where theyre supposed to be conducted under the in the in arabic of the language of the child but often we have being conducted in hebrew with with limited arabic translation children in you know anywhere from twenty to thirty percent of cases do sign documents in hebrew that can be confessions incriminating statements and in really these interrogations you know getting back to the point on torture we see physical violence slopping punching. I think sixty two percent of cases from last year. Threats inducement and shouting pounding on the table in timid. Nation and its really all built around providing confession or creating something that could be used to pass to a military prosecutor to charge the child in the military courts because through the military Law Framework because the courts are you know lack to process guarantees the really is no independent oversight over us that means theres no evidence gathering so the interrogation is the place where the evidence is is created to then pass to a prosecutor. And he has this conversation going down on line guessing were almost out of time and i know theres so much more to talk about but how can people react to a lot of support for i had seen me on you tube and on twitter and i want to end with this tweet though from let it go i am he says its about time the world recognizes that palestinian lives matter and our children deserve rights protected freedom and a stance of justice from the International Community so bride the door and yes and thank you so much for being part of a conversation today i have a conversation at that we continue online at hash tag stream thanks for watching everybody take a. Hard. Until now the coverage of latin america and most of the world was about covering khuda todds tragedies of quakes and that was it but not how people feel how they look how they think and thats what we do we go anywhere if i would have months of demanding a one Education System that was introduced to. 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