Since the beginning of 2018, Israel has detained 908 Palestinian children according to Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), who made the announcement on Tuesday
"Of the 908 Palestinian children detained since January to the end of October, 270 are still held in various Israeli prisons," PPS said in a statemen
Children, who are detained from their homes in the middle of the night, are often severely beaten and threatened getting them to sign confessions
Many of the children report denied in education, family visits and medical attention
According to Days of Palestine, PPS stressed that Israel has enacted several laws, since 2015, and targeting Palestinian children in particular, that would allow the detention and trial of minors at age 14 years, and prison sentences of more than ten years to life, for those found to have thrown rocks at illegal settlers or occupation forces
According to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, there are 5,580 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, of whom 250 are children, with 35 under the age of 16 years