APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Hebron - 05 April 2021. Palestinian children celebrate the Palestinian Child’s Day in the Old City of Jerusalem
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Israel continues to detain hundreds of Palestinian children and subject them to military courts amidst the pandemic.
Since the beginning of this year, occupying Israeli forces have arrested more than 230 Palestinian children, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
According to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem in 2020, more than 1,600 minors were held in Israeli custody. Israeli officials have started to withhold numbers that could reveal the true scale of detention of children.
The PPS has only monitored arrests in the occupied city of Jerusalem, the number in the occupied territories of the West Bank could be much higher.
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