Palestinians say 24 Gazan children held at Israel’s Megiddo Prison

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Some 24 Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip are held by Israel at Megiddo Prison, according to prisoners’ affairs groups on Sunday, Anadolu reports. “Around 94 children are held at the prison in northern Israel, including 24 from Gaza,” the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a joint statement. According to the statement, Israeli authorities keep in custody some 200 Palestinian children, including more than 40 held without charge or trial under Israel’s notorious policy of administrative detention. “Prison authorities continue to impose punitive measures against child prisoners similar to those taken against adult detainees since Oct. 7,” the statement said, adding that children held at Israeli prisons were deprived of family visits. Israel has […]

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