An-Najah News - 200 Palestinian children are held in Israeli Occupation jails, said Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Palestinian Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Commission, on the occasion of the Palestinian Child Day April 5 of every year.

He said in that around 1700 Palestinian minors ranging in age between 12 and 18 years, were arrested by Israeli occupation since the year 2000 He said in a statementyesterday.

Qadri said most of the detained children in the last years were from occupied East Jerusalem.

“The violations Palestinian children in Israeli occupation prisons face have never happened in the history of the United Nations and human rights, which is a disgrace to this organization and international human rights organizations, which have failed to provide the minimum protection for the Palestinian children,” he said.

He asked the UN Secretary-General, the Human Rights Council, UNICEF and Amnesty International to act quickly to pressure Israel to release the prisoners, particularly the children whose life is under threat due to the coronavirus outbreak.