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By Adam Hanieh, Catherine Cook, Adah Kay

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Stolen adolescence is the 1st publication to discover Israel's incarceration of Palestinian kids. according to first-hand info from overseas human rights teams and NGO employees within the West financial institution and Gaza Strip, it additionally good points interviews with teenagers who've been imprisoned. the result's a traumatic and infrequently stunning account of the abuses which are being performed by way of Israel.

The booklet offers a severe research of the overseas felony framework and the UN process, arguing significant failure of those instuitutions is their entice neutrality whereas ignoring the truth of strength. The ebook makes an attempt to handle the inadequacy of those associations via putting the difficulty of Palestinian baby prisoners in the framework of Israeli method and the general procedure of control.

Stolen adolescence outlines Israel's method of institutionalized discrimination and country torture, demanding situations the legitimacy of Israel's 'security' argument, and argues that Israel's remedy of Palestinian detainees types one pillar of a coverage designed to quash resistance to the profession.

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The system is multi-faceted and highly legalistic. It relies not only on brute force, but on a codified set of orders and procedures that attempt to ‘legalise’ discrimination and obfuscate the actual practices of soldiers, police and settlers. This system is supported through the attempted recruitment of child collaborators, helped by the very dependency to which Palestinians are driven under Israeli military orders. Cook 01 chap01 27/11/03 17:45 Page 35 4 International Law and Child Detention Over the past 50 years, the international community has developed a complex system of human rights instruments.

Cook 01 chap01 27/11/03 17:45 Page 39 International Law and Child Detention 39 THE LEGAL INSTRUMENTS Two bodies of international law govern the situation of Palestinian child prisoners: • International humanitarian law (IHL), which deals with war, armed conflict and occupation; • International human rights law, which defines and protects universal rights held by every human being. These two bodies of law are designed to complement one another. Many internationally accepted provisions, such as the prohibition on torture, are part of both human rights and humanitarian law.

Judges are appointed by the IDF Regional Commander upon the recommendation of the Military Advocate General who is advised by a special committee. They are promoted almost exclusively from the ranks of prosecutors. Once appointed, judges have no right of tenure and can be removed by the Regional Commander. 13 This report by Amnesty International identifies a key problem with the military court system – there is no neutral and separate judicial apparatus. Judges and prosecutors are appointed by the Israeli military, the same body that arrests, detains and interrogates the children.

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