Action Alert: Stop Israel's Abuse of Palestinian Children

September 2, 2010 Al-Awda    
          
                 According to the Palestine Section of Defense for Children
International, each year, about 700 Palestinian children from the
West Bank are prosecuted in Israeli military courts. Out of 100
sworn affidavits collected by lawyers in 2009, 69% of the children
were beaten and kicked, 49% were threatened, 14% were held in
solitary confinement, 12% were threatened with sexual assault,
including rape, and 32% were forced to sign confessions written in
Hebrew, a language they do not understand. Israel's treatment of
detained Palestinian children is considered to be torture by the
United Nations under international law.
         
                 Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition calls on all its
members, supporters and people of conscience to contact the White
House to demand that the Obama administration direct the Israeli
leadership, currently in Washington DC, to immediately release and
end the systematic and institutionalized abuse of all Palestinian
children in Israeli prisons in accordance with international law.
The US government, which supports Israel to the tune of billions
of taxpayer dollars a year while most ordinary Americans are
suffering in a very bad economy, is bound by its laws to cut off
all aid to Israel until it ends all of its violations of human
rights and basic freedoms in a verifiable manner.
         
                 To contact the White House, please use the online form at
                 http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

                 Alternatively write to:

                 President Barack Obama
                 The White House
                 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
                 Washington, DC 20500

                 Phone : 202-456-1414
                 Fax: 202-456-2461

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                 House members can be reached through the Capitol switchboard toll
free at:
                 1-877-331-2000

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