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June 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda After a UK government-backed report accused Israeli regime’s security forces of breaching the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which prohibits cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, Britain backed the study, saying it would be taking up the claims with the Israeli authorities.
“The UK government has had long-standing concerns about the treatment of Palestinian children in Israeli detention, and as a result, decided to fund this independent report. While recognizing that some positive recent steps have been taken by the Israeli authorities, we share many of the report’s concerns, and will continue to lobby for further improvements,” said the UK Foreign Office on June 26.
However, the campaign group War on Want said that an Israeli army announcement from September 2011 shows that JCB Company has supplied an armored bulldozer, the High Mobility Engineer Excavator, to the Israeli military to be used “by the paratroopers’ division of the Israeli army’s Central Command.”
Meanwhile, according to the report, Children in Military Custody, which was released on Tuesday June 26, a delegation of senior lawyers visiting Israel and the occupied West Bank found “undisputed facts,” showing at least six violations of the UNCRC.
Urging the Israeli regime to address differences in the way Israeli and Palestinian children are treated, the investigation team revealed that Palestinian children as young as 12 are jailed and can be kept even for three months without legal representation, while Israeli children cannot be imprisoned under the age of 14.
The damning report also found that the maximum period an Israeli child can be detained without charge is 40 days, but for a Palestinian child the period is 188 days.
“We were sitting in court and saw a section of a preliminary hearing when a very young looking child, a boy, was brought in wearing a brown uniform with leg irons on. We were shocked by that. This was a situation where we had been invited into the military courts for briefings from senior judges,” explained one of the report’s authors, human rights barrister Greg Davies.
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